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Got A Heart Calling On Line Two
from the ooh-i-hope-it's-not-long-distance dept
A company has released a new heart monitor that sends cardiograph information to a call center where the company compares it to a patient's medical history to see if they need to go to the hospital when they're feeling unwell. The device uses three electrodes to record two minutes of heartbeats, then when the patient presses a button, they're played as a series of beeps into the microphone of any phone and sent in for review by a cardiologist that then advises a course of action. The company says they're working on a model that would talk directly to cell phones over Bluetooth that should be ready in the next couple years -- so they're well behind the pacemaker industry, which has had devices capable of calling doctors for some time.
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mike, these have been around for yrs. i had an episode of psvt and wore a monitor for a week. every time i thought something was awry, i pushed a button on the monitor. three min later, i called a special # and played tones back. cardiomedix in evanston. this was 2001. they kept records and cardiologist reviewed
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Who's Mike?
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Yeah....definatley not new(s). Freind of mine had a heart monitor that did this 3-4 years ago.
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CNN seems to think it's news.
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Had one of these in '98. This isn't anything new.
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it would be new if there was a usb interface & you just sent the data as an email attachment.
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