How AI is transforming the future of healthcare

For decades, heart specialists have been implanting insertable cardiac monitors (ICMs) to track sporadic heart arrhythmia. These subcutaneous devices have become the preferred diagnostic tool for prolonged heart rhythm monitoring since they were first developed in 1990. But ICM false alerts have been a problem ever since. Now, however, physicians are using artificial intelligence to reduce the incidence of ICM false positives. Last summer, Medtronic, a global leader in healthcare technology, introduced new AI algorithms to reduce false alerts from irregular or rapid heart rhythms and long pauses between heartbeats.