NHSX AI Award at 1: reflections and observations in cardiac monitoring

The NHSX AI in Health and Care Award – designed to fund and integrate the most innovative AI solutions into the NHS – is approaching its first anniversary of operation. This milestone feels like a good time to hear from the sites benefitting from iRhythm's Zio service, one of the first Award winners. If a cardiologist from 25 years ago found themselves transported to the modern day, they would probably find most technological developments overwhelming. Put that cardiologist into an NHS cardiology clinic, and when they see the 24-hour tapes and the cumbersome external monitors with ECG leads stuck to patients, they would feel right at home. Professor Jay Wright, who is the lead clinician for heart failure and cardiac devices at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital (LHCH), is someone who might well have known this hypothetical cardiologist from 25 years ago.