Two local doctors and an artificial intelligence specialist are teaming up to try to solve a huge problem in the Nova Scotia health-care system.
Leading pediatric cardiologists Dr. Robert Chen and Dr. Santokh Dhillon, along with AI expert Mohammed Shameer Iqbal, are close to launching a new high-tech stethoscope that can screen murmurs in children with a high degree of precision.
The goal for their company — Kardio Diagnostix — is to eliminate the majority of unnecessary referrals to specialists, which are clogging up the system and often keeping anxious families waiting more than a year for an answer.