A great break through.Can we try it out now.

Hi Eric,

Could you please put you review video on youTube so that we could share it and prome on national blogs?

regards,

Lukasz

Great for kids and young adults - should work independent of patient size and age. Also obviously no ECG lead stickers so one can exercise vigorously and record a rhythm without losing data when sweaty skin makes the leads fall off. Come to think of it, sweaty, salty fingers might improve contact with the device.

Would love to do a peds EP trial to replace current event monitoring. 

Also good for drug trials if fidelity/filtering is such you could check QT intervals at serum peak times. 

Hopefully, this will work with the iPod Touch - when available, we'll send patients home with it to capture a strip when a patient feeling symptoms. we wouldn't see it as a replacement for a regular ECG; rather, it's a technology to do better screening for symptoms in the patient setting.

Comments attacking this on basis that it's not a viable substitute for an ECG are, I think, missing the point related to value of this device - which you articulated quite succinctly in your web video.  thanks

 John Horton, Richmond VA

As a patient, I would love to have something like this. My iPhone is with me at all times, and while I don't see it as a substitute for a clinical ECG, I can see how this would be very useful.  When I experience symptoms, I can record them right then and there. Perfect!

This could prove to be not only a very useful tool, but a tool that could enhance our on-going concerns with the high costs of medial practice.  And, it would be readily available to the patient as soon as there is patient awareness of a dysrhythmia.  Initially, and unfortunately, it could also enhance apprehension!

I am a retired cardiologist (20 years retired) and have "no dog in the fight," though I still serve on a hospital Board of Trustees and am concerned with the costs of medical services.   

    This is so exciting for the A-Fib patient. A patient is never near a doctor when they have those funny little flutters, thuds, trimmers, scary episodes of a-fib, so this will be a way to get a readout to them when it is happening and will help in each ones case on a greater level.

As a cardiac technologist studying health informatics i'd love to look at this for my dissertation! Any suggestions for an angle to come at it from would be greatly appreciated!

Hey Eric,

Enjoyed this demo!!! Look forward to future apps that will likely spin off in the future. Also.....that athletic heart rate is duly noted!!!

Melissa

As a techno-geek, I find this one of the more interesting things to come along in awhile.

Great question, Anne

I spoke to Dr. Albert on this topic and he told me that they have an algorithm to do automated arrhtyhmia diagnosis in the works....so that would be the AI you are probing and a welcome way to deal with this (if accurate!)

I only see right now your blog about this application of heart rate in I phone.

What are the news 3 months after this recording?

Was it approoved by FDA? 

What wouldbe the price?

And I did not understand very well how the data will be transmitted to the cardiologist (or GP)

thank you doctor Topol for your always accurante updates.

it is always a pleasure to listen to you during these 5 minutes' full of interest .

doctor Usdin from Paris France. 

Sept 18th 2011 

Great new tool, definitely helpful and yes a sign of progress. Simple to use and definitely can have far reaching public use possibly even replacing big machines used in public defibrillators....in the future who knows may even serve as such with enough battery life!!!

I have enjoyed this demo ! All we can do using pocket-sized devices -and esp. just only via IPHONE!!- will be the next revolution if cardiological diagnostics.. I heard about PHONOCARDIOGRAM recordings using iPhone technology.

A real even more amazing and extremely useful development could be by ..getting information about left ventricular (LV) filling pressures at rest and above with short, low level isometric handgrip exercise! for detecting early stage myocardial dysfunction states, and esp. silent ISCHEMIA.! As we all know, ischemia is not always detectable by ECG, esp. Rest-ECG, but induces in >90% of cases dramatic elevation of LV end-diastolic pressure. By filtering out the lower frequencies, we can easily get placing the sensor over LV beat a noninvasive “pulse-pressure” recording (“pressocardiogram”) which has been extensively proved by cath studies to reflect accurately LV pressure curve in time, slope and relative amplitude. It has also proved that handgrip exercise induces ischemia and “ischemic” diastolic LV pressure changes, which are characteristic for ischemia and rarely occur in non-ischemic conditions! Multiple published data showed that this “ischemic diastolic response” can be exactly defined and is helpful in identifying silent CAD patients ..

Thus, we could further develop an ischemia detecting iPhone-based diagnosis as well as deterioration in heart failure pts. !..We would also get an..POCKET-SIZED IPHONE-based STRESS TEST, since handgrip stress can be done by a small dynamometer...

Is the device (that has to be applied to the iphone) available in the market now? how can one get it?

Great invention. I could see everyday ordinary people using this device. Also this app and device would be a good addition to any Family for Health monitoring and emailing the info to a local Doctor to examine before the patent even goes to the Doctor's office to streamline medical care. I could see this device coupled with the patents own family doctor to help identify health problems before the health issue becomes severe. 

I think this device could save lives in the future. I would like to buy one of the devices. Will the device be distributed throghout the U.S.A. ? if so I think the device will be well recieved by the public.