{"id":235366,"date":"2026-06-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/doctors-thought-it-was-asthma-a-i-flagged-a-serious-heart-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:15:11","slug":"doctors-thought-it-was-asthma-a-i-flagged-a-serious-heart-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/doctors-thought-it-was-asthma-a-i-flagged-a-serious-heart-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Thought It Was Asthma. A.I. Flagged a Serious Heart Problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/22\/health\/artificial-intelligence-heart-damage.html\">Doctors Thought It Was Asthma. A.I. Flagged a Serious Heart Problem.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/22\/health\/artificial-intelligence-heart-damage.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/22\/health\/artificial-intelligence-heart-damage.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-22 17:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nytimes.com\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Use of AI to Save Life<\/strong>: Artificial intelligence, specifically the EchoNext program, likely saved the life of 45-year-old Louie Quiros who presented to a Queens emergency room with severe symptoms but no clear diagnosis from initial tests. <\/li>\n<li><strong>EchoNext Detection<\/strong>: AI program EchoNext detected patterns in Quiros&#8217;s electrocardiogram that indicated severe heart damage not initially apparent, leading to further diagnostic actions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Undiagnosed Serious Condition<\/strong>: Doctors discovered Quiros had a rare genetic disorder that caused severe heart failure, which was only identified through advanced analysis enabled by AI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heart Transplant<\/strong>: Following a more detailed examination prompted by AI\u2019s findings, Quiros underwent a life-saving heart transplant.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Broader Implications of AI in Medicine<\/strong>: The case illustrates AI&#8217;s potential to improve diagnostic accuracy, particularly in detecting overlooked issues in busy clinical settings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI Integration with OpenEvidence<\/strong>: EchoNext is set to be integrated into OpenEvidence, a medical chatbot widely used by doctors; this marks a significant step in making advanced AI tools more accessible to a broader medical practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors Thought It Was Asthma. A.I. Flagged a Serious Heart Problem. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/22\/health\/artificial-intelligence-heart-damage.html Publish Date: 2026-06-22&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/06\/22\/science\/22SCI-AI-HEART\/22SCI-AI-HEART-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-235366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235368,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235366\/revisions\/235368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}