HeartFlow
Benefits
Turns a regular CT scan of the heart into a 3D image allowing doctors to diagnose life-threatening coronary heart disease in just twenty minutes. Patients can be seen, diagnosed, and treated around five times quicker than before, offering more convenient care and helping NHS staff get services back on track after pandemic disruptions. Aims to reduce heart attacks and strokes by 150,000 as part of NHS Long Term Plan.
Details
- Tool name
- HeartFlow
- Organisation
- NHS England
- Status
- live
- AI method (as recorded)
- Computer Vision
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Computer Vision
- Usecase
- Health AI
- Origin
- england.nhs.uk
- Owning team
- NHS England
- Date added
- 4 May 2021
- Scrape date
- Source note
- Article on NHS England website about rollout of HeartFlow technology as part of NHS Long Term Plan commitments. [Source]