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Two San Luis Obispo County hospitals are using artificial intelligence to detect strokes, a move that makes treatment more efficient and could even save lives, according to a local physician.
“It’s helping us to reach our diagnosis faster,” Dr. Moussa Yazbeck, medical director of stroke programs at Tenet Health Central Coast, said. “It can give the providers, the physicians, nurses, more time to do what we are trained to do — being with the patient.”
The artificial intelligence, which lives in an application called Viz.ai, reads a patient’s CT scan results to identify signs of a stroke within minutes, Yazbeck said.
Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo and Twin Cities Community Hospital in Templeton launched the app on Feb. 6, according to Maria Irthum, neuroscience, stroke and spine Coordinator at Tenet Health Central Coast.
Here’s everything you need to know about the new technology.