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Addressing Chest Pain Evaluations for 50 million Americans

Of the 10M patients that are sent or present to an ED each year in the US for “chest pain” up to 90% of visits are recognized as “non-urgent” or medically unnecessary. mHeart is an AI/ML enabled mobile health platform that aims to transform the evaluation of chest pain. Invented by a Cardiologist, mHeart will […]

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