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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Gregory Health editor

NHS in England to trial AI tool to predict risk of fatal heart disease

A male patient undergoes an ECG
Aire has been trained on a dataset of 1.16m ECG test results from 189,539 patients. Photograph: MediC Pix/Alamy

The NHS in England is to trial a “superhuman” artificial intelligence tool that predicts a patient’s risk of disease and dying early.

The new technology, known as AI-ECG risk estimation, or Aire, is trained to read the results of electrocardiogram (ECG) tests, which record the electrical activity of the heart and are used to check for problems.

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