CARDIOLOGIST ON EMBRACING AI TECHNOLOGY

Cardiologists are being encouraged to adopt emerging technologies to enhance efficiency and extend healthcare services to remote and underserved areas, as it emerges that cardiovascular disease accounts for 10 per cent of deaths in the country. Dr. Bernard Samia, President of the Kenya Cardiac Society (KCS), highlighted that the medical profession has struggled with adopting digital solutions, partly because many healthcare workers are accustomed to traditional approaches.