By John Werner
Publication Date: 2026-02-21 16:12:00
Kidney with biology and healthcare concept, 3D illustration. 3D illustration.
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We hear a lot about medical advances with AI, including at conferences where people address the current realities surrounding LLMs, but sometimes it’s good to get a slightly more detailed idea of how positive change works based on the capabilities of neural networks. Ultimately, AI is not just “revolutionizing” medicine: it is providing the design capability for tools and solutions over which clinicians and administrators still have control.
Some of this became clear when Ami Bhatt, chief innovation officer (CIO) at the American College of Cardiology, interviewed Carna Health’s Salvatore Viscomi about his company’s successes at the Imagination in Action event in Davos in January. (Disclaimer: I help run Imagination in Action, a free conference on AI at the Swiss Congress.)
First, Viscomi clarified that Carna has focused on chronic kidney disease and described how this works for…