Machine predicts heart attacks 4 hours before doctors – tech – 11 August 2014 – New Scientist

Machine predicts heart attacks 4 hours before doctors – tech – 11 August 2014 – New Scientist

By looking at 72 parameters in patients’ medical history including vital signs, age, blood glucose and platelet counts, the system was able to tell, sometimes from data from 4 hours before an event, whether a patient would have gone into arrest. It guessed correctly about two-thirds of the time, while a scorecard flagged just 30 per cent of events.