MoH launches AI-based Heart Disease Risk Assessment System Project
A ceremony to announce the launch of the Heart Disease Risk Assessment System Project, one of the projects to be implemented within the first 100 days of the new government, was held yesterday morning at the meeting hall of the Ministry of Health.
The ceremony was attended by Union Minister for Health Dr Thet Khaing Win, the deputy minister, and professors from hospitals participating in the project.
At the ceremony, the Union minister said that cooperation in implementing the Heart Disease Risk Assessment System Project would further strengthen friendship and healthcare cooperation between Myanmar and China.
Afterwards, Mr Hu Cheng, Vice-President of Shenzhen Benefm Medical Science and Technology Company, explained matters relating to the project, while Dr Nwe Nwe, Professor and Head of the Cardiology Department at Yangon General Hospital, presented the implementation process of the Heart Disease Risk Assessment System Project.
A video presentation was then shown demonstrating the heart disease risk assessment system, including the use of wearable AI ECG-equipped garments and software analysis to assess patients’ risk of heart disease.
The “Myanmar Heart Disease Risk Assessment System Project” is a Myanmar-China cooperative programme that will be implemented over one year for 100,000 people at the Yangon General Hospital, Mandalay General Hospital, Nay Pyi Taw General Hospital, North Okkalapa General Hospital and Kanthaya Hospital. Efforts will continue to expand the programme nationwide.
People at high risk of heart disease, athletes, pilots, long-distance highway drivers and passenger bus drivers will be able to use comfortable wearable garments equipped with AI ECG devices to undergo continuous 24-hour heart disease risk monitoring without disrupting their daily activities. — MNA/KNN
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