Dr Ahmed El-Medany: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- BHF clinical research fellow, who led the analysis at Imperial College London
- Quoted on
- Heart disease & stroke, NHS waiting lists
- Press citations held
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“These results suggest there is potentially far more information hidden within a routine ECG than we can recognise by looking at it ourselves.”
What Dr Ahmed El-Medany has said
“These results suggest there is potentially far more information hidden within a routine ECG than we can recognise by looking at it ourselves. It is particularly encouraging that this superhuman AI performed well across separate groups of patients. The important next questions are how it performs in NHS patients and whether the same information can be captured using much simpler portable ECG devices.”
NHLI Clinical Research Fellow · Heart disease & stroke · 30 Sept 2026 · AI model could identify hidden heart disease from routine ECGs ↗
“described the tool as a "superhuman AI" and said the next challenge would be to design handheld AI-led ECG readers for healthcare professionals to use.”
BHF clinical research fellow, who led the Imperial College London analysis · NHS waiting lists · 29 Sept 2026 · ‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds ↗
Where Dr Ahmed El-Medany has been quoted
- NHS to use AI to catch undetectable heart disease ‘in blink of an eye’telegraph.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- AI model could identify hidden heart disease from routine ECGsimperial.ac.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- ‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 secondstheguardian.com · 29 Sept 2026
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