Eko Health outfits LSU Athletic Sports Medicine team with CORE 500 digital stethoscopes and AI algorithms for the enhanced detection of cardiac conditions during athlete physical exams BATON ROUGE, La. & SAN FRANCISCO , Aug. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Eko Health , a pioneer in applying artificial intelligence (AI) for early detection of heart and lung diseases, LSU Athletics, and Our Lady of the Lake Health are teaming up to elevate and enhance LSU's elite student-athlete heart health and preventive care programs.
Eko Health will outfit LSU's world-class Sports Medicine team with Eko's FDA-cleared CORE 500 digital stethoscopes and accompanying software platform, including FDA-cleared AI algorithms for detecting atrial fibrillation and heart murmurs, which are often indicative of structural heart disease. The donation makes LSU Athletics the first college sports program to implement Eko Health's cutting-edge medical devices and AI algorithms to care for student-athletes. Healthcare providers from Our Lady of the Lake Health, LSU Athletics' Championship Health Partner, will use the digital stethoscopes enhanced with AI during physical exams to address student-athlete concerns and as a key preventive heart-health tool.
"Our commitment to providing clinically excellent care for our student-athletes means we're only using the latest, most-sophisticated technology to help them to perform to the best of their ability," said Micki Collins , LSU Athletics Associate Athletic Director and .