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Automatic review of atrial high-rate episodes by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model can decrease the workload of remote monitoring, provided it maintains high sensitivity for true atrial tachycardia. A residual network is trained using a center-level fourfold cross validation. The four resulting models achieved a precision of 97.2\u201399.4% for AT\/AF, 93.1\u201397.7% for noise, and 75.4\u201394.4% for FFO, while maintaining high sensitivity 98.9\u201399.3% for AT\/AF. The four models were combined through averaging prediction probabilities to create an ensemble model. Thresholding ensemble predictions with probability &gt; 95% resulted in a robust ensemble model that made only two errors (&lt;0.1%) after reviewing 3925 episodes (91.9%) of the total 4271 episodes. This shows how AI models can reliably assist in remote monitoring. 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