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EPISODE · Feb 24, 2026 · 42 MIN

Half of America Has No Cardiologist — Software Bridges That Gap with Juan C. Jimenez

from Rounds · host Joseph Hashim

Juan C. Jimenez addresses the heart care crisis in the United States where half of all counties have no specialist to read heart scans. There are more monitors than ever but less time to look at the data. Software must help doctors find sickness before it spreads.AccurKardia turns simple heart signals into powerful medical tests, finding kidney failure and valve issues using current watches and patches. With AccurKardia, primary care doctors can now spot risks that once stayed hidden - a shift that moves clinical tests into the home and helps doctors save lives.🎯 KEY EPISODE TAKEAWAYS:🚀 MASSIVE GROWTH [02:59]:"We believe software and the current compute capacity is the only way to be able to perform work class analysis on those ECGs and empower primary care."We do not have enough cardiologists to fix the care gap. Computer power helps local clinics treat people without sending them miles away to a city hospital.🛠️ SIMPLE INTEGRATION [10:36]:"We can plug and play exactly in your workflows that clinicians, cardiac technicians and IDTF already have."New technology does not mean buying new machines. See how this system works with the watches and sensors you already use every day.⚠️ DEADLY SILENCE [19:11]:"50% of cases of aortic stenosis are found postmortem."Doctors often miss valve disease until it is too late. Watch this part to see how software finds the signal before a patient dies.CHAPTERS:00:00 - The Cardiology Desert and the Care Gap02:27 - Scaling Heart Care with Computer Power04:17 - Hidden Insights in Simple Heart Scans06:17 - Enterprise Scale Tools for Heart Data09:55 - Using Software Instead of New Hardware15:04 - Home Kidney Testing in the Living Room19:08 - Finding Silent Killers in Heart Valves23:31 - Predicting Heart Failure with Software25:59 - Verifying AI Results to Build Trust32:20 - Linking Heart and Kidney Health Signals38:22 - Better Care for Local Primary Clinics🔗 CONNECT WITH JUAN C. JIMENEZ:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcjimenezbosques/• Website: https://www.accurkardia.com/#HeartHealth #HealthTech #AIinMedicine

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Juan C. Jimenez addresses the heart care crisis in the United States where half of all counties have no specialist to read heart scans. There are more monitors than ever but less time to look at the data. Software must help doctors find sickness before it spreads. AccurKardia turns simple heart signals into powerful medical tests, finding kidney failure and valve issues using current watches and patches. With AccurKardia, primary care doctors can now spot risks that once stayed hidden - a sh...

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