Wednesday, October 3, 2012

CardioDefender Smartphone-based ECG

Imagine being able to monitor ECGs in realtime on your physician's phone. That's what this device offers and is just the start of medical informatics integration.

Education Implications

    86792fu5
  • I would love to see more monitoring systems for schools to track daily physical activity as well as intensity across heart rate zones, calories burned, calories consumed, workout plans and emotion/psychological levels.
  • Its funny that we put more emphasis into tracking daily attendance (do you know of students who have perfect attendance?), Math/History/English/Science grades (Common Core) than we do about physical fitness, physical activity, nutrition, stress and emotional levels. When is this going to change? 

CardioDefender Smartphone-based ECG, a 21st Century Holter Monitor:

Everist Genomics, an Ann Arbor, Michigan company, is set to release its CardioDefender diagnostic system, a smartphone ECG that can provide continuous readings throughout the day that can help detect arrhythmias that may be hard to spot in an office visit.
The system uses a wrist watch-like device to collect data from electrodes and transmit it wirelessly via Bluetooth to a smartphone that can then share it with clinicians monitoring the patient. CardioDefender, that recently won both FDA approval and EU’s CE Mark, can activate an alarm to rapidly notify a physician of any particularly unwelcome graph via an email, page, or other electronic means.
Read More



Click here to explore more of ExerGame Lab's archived posts involving research studies.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Enter your email address:

Delivered by TinyLetter