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Mayo creating new device for mobile cardiac monitoring

The Mayo Clinic once again has teamed up with app developer Preventice to work on a remote monitoring product, but this time it won't be an app --the software developer's sweet spot. It will be a

Small wireless device turns a smartphone into a heart monitor

Swiss researchers have created a heart monitor small enough to attach to a patient's belt loop, helping to alert physicians to imminent cardiac events. The device, which took four years to develop,

Hospital app links emergency docs to EMTs

Washington Hospital Center has created a new mobile app to connect ED physicians and cardiologists with EMTs in the ambulance, providing real-time data and video streams of patient ECGs and other

Low-cost, cell-phone powered stethoscope ideal for remote care

A new mobile stethoscope kit created by Oxford University and University of Cape Town was developed for global-health use, but could have interesting possibilities in remote areas, or for remote

AliveCor earns $3M in Series A financing

Mobile electrocardiogram developer AliveCor just snagged a huge cash infusion without even having a product on the market. Wireless and telecom company QualComm, along with the Oklahoma Life Science

Wristwatch detector helps to predict heart attacks

An intriguing new mobile device, claiming to be able to identify incipient heart attacks, has hurtled a major development milestone, according to a study in the journal Heart Rhythm. The device,

HP, SingTel test out cardiac telehealth monitoring

American computer giant HP and Singapore's major telecom carrier, SingTel, just launched an eight-week clinical trial of a mobile cardiac monitoring device. The device, a wrist-watch-like unit made

Simplified wireless arrhythmia monitor requires minimal user interaction

Portland, Ore.-based TZ Medical and German-based Cinterion say their new product, Aera-CT, has solved two key problems with at-home, wireless arrhythmia tracking--background noise and dual-module