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The post Meet The Doctor-Turned-Entrepreneur Using AI To Save Lives appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Aengus Tran traded medical practice to build AI software that delivers quick and accurate diagnoses of X-rays and scans. Now, the 32-year-old CEO of Sydney-based Harrison.ai and a 30 Under 30 Asia alum is targeting America’s overstretched healthcare system. While studying medicine in Sydney in 2015 with a view to specializing in cardiology, Aengus Tran did a two-month clinical placement in his native Vietnam that upended his plan. At the Tam Duc Cardiology Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, the doctor-to-be witnessed first-hand how the short-staffed hospital struggled to provide timely diagnoses to its patients. For Tran, it was a moment of clarity that medicine “needs a system-wide change, one based on technology that can read scans and make diagnoses instantly…and is run so effectively and efficiently that it is available to everyone,” he says. With a mission to drive that change, he c