AI was one of the biggest stories at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2023 conference in Philadelphia. Researchers presented new data about heart attack care, voice recognition algorithms, digital stethoscopes and more. 

“Going forward, patients and medical teams have a choice of two pathways for chest pain relief: chest pain medication or PCI," one cardiologist said. 

“Nearly 300,000 cardiac arrests occur in hospitals in the United States each year, and only about 25% of people survive to hospital discharge after these types of events,” according to one author of a new analysis published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

The study focused on patients 65 years old and older who underwent treatment in one of 21 high-income countries. 

One key difference between this new risk calculator and previous methods is that it does not consider a patient's race or ethnicity. It does, however, consider such factors as where the patient lives, their education and their income level. 

AHA members have voted to throw their full support behind the efforts to establish a new American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine. 

The study's authors communicated with ChatGPT-4 in both English and Japanese, noting that it appeared to struggle more with the complexities of the Japanese language. 

The new-look algorithm, trained and validated with data from more than 25,000 patients, scans a patient's electronic health record and identifies signs of trouble.