Having A Heart Attack? This AI Helps Emergency Dispatchers Find Out

Adele Peters, Having A Heart Attack? This AI Helps Emergency Dispatchers Find Out, Fast Company,  01.11.18

Dispatchers in Copenhagen, who are well trained, can recognize cardiac arrest from descriptions over the phone around 73% of the time. But the AI can do better. In an early, small-scale study, the machine learning model knew the calls were reporting cardiac arrest 95% of the time. Another study, which analyzed 170,000 calls, will soon be published.