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Powerful Medical team receiving the MedTech Innovator 2025 Mid-Stage Grand Prize award on stage, holding a large winner’s check.

Powerful Medical Wins MedTech Innovator 2025

Powerful Medical has been named MedTech Innovator 2025, winning MTI’s Mid-Stage Grand Finals—top honor from the world’s largest medtech accelerator. The award recognizes PMcardio and its FDA Breakthrough-designated Queen of Hearts™ AI ECG technology, which doubles sensitivity for detecting severe heart attacks and significantly cuts ECG-to-balloon time in large clinical trials.

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Can AI Outperform Doctors in ECG Interpretation? (RCEM Learning Podcast, by Dr. Andy Neill and Dr. Dave McCreary)

In this RCEM Learning Podcast episode, Andy and Dave explore a study comparing doctors and PMcardio’s Queen of Hearts™ AI in ECG interpretation. Physicians achieved ~65% accuracy, while the AI reached ~89%, outperforming even cardiologists in spotting subtle occlusions — a shift with major implications for emergency medicine.
Doctor holding Roche cobas® pulse point-of-care device displaying PMcardio AI-powered ECG interpretation for real-time heart attack detection at the patient bedside.

PMcardio Expands Heart Attack Detection to Patient Bedside through Roche cobas® pulse Point of Care Platform

Powerful Medical has partnered with Roche to integrate AI-powered ECG interpretation from PMcardio into the cobas® pulse point-of-care platform. Combined with Roche’s Elecsys® high-sensitivity cardiac Troponin T assay, this solution enables clinicians to rapidly and accurately rule in or rule out heart attacks directly at the patient’s bedside.
Smartphone showing This Week in Cardiology podcast episode featuring PMcardio Queen of Hearts™ AI outperforming physicians in ECG interpretation

AI vs MD ECG-Reading for Cath Lab Activation (This Week in Cardiology, by Dr. John Mandrola)

In this episode of This Week in Cardiology, Dr. John Mandrola reviews a study comparing physicians with PMcardio’s Queen of Hearts™ AI. The results show the AI achieved 89% accuracy in detecting subtle STEMI equivalents—far surpassing doctors’ 66%—highlighting its potential to transform early heart attack triage.
Powerful Medical awarded €40M IPCEI grant to expand AI diagnostics for heart attacks, heart failure, and arrhythmias

Powerful Medical Receives €40 Million Non-Dilutive Grant to Accelerate Early Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Diseases with AI

Powerful Medical announces it has been selected to receive over €40 million in non-dilutive funding from the European Commission’s IPCEI Tech4Cure initiative. This significant grant will accelerate global adoption and clinical validation of PMcardio®, the world’s first AI-powered platform enabling rapid and accurate diagnosis of heart attacks and other life-threatening cardiac conditions, dramatically expanding the company’s potential to save millions of lives worldwide.

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