Revolutionizing Remote Heart Care. AI-powered technology could possibly change the game for remote patients needing echocardiograms. AI is enhancing access to crucial heart scans, ensuring accurate diagnoses even from a distance.
"New technology is being trialled by the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute at five sites across Australia in cooperation with Aboriginal community health groups."
"Professor Tom Marwick from the Baker Institute said so far the results from the trial had shown that the AI technology was working to get good quality ultrasound images.
The computer knows what the image should look like and it also knows how to get to the appropriate image, so it's able to prompt the person that's doing the test to get to where they should be," he said."
"He said the technology aimed to assist trained sonographers and cardiologists, not to replace them."
"Professor Marwick said the trial was examining whether the images gathered using the AI technology were of the same quality as traditionally gathered pictures, and if they were failing to identify any health problems.
"If there's uncertainty about the result, because the image is inadequate, then that patient will go through the normal pathway, so I don't see a downside," he said.
"Australia has a shortage of sonographers, and the profession has been on the national skills shortage list for more than a decade, according to the Australasian Sonographers Association chief executive Jodie Long."
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