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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    todd, 17 Nov 2005 @ 5:48pm

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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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    Anonymous Coward, 17 Nov 2005 @ 5:56pm

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    Who's Mike?

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    Anonymous Coward, 17 Nov 2005 @ 6:01pm

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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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    Anonymous Coward, 17 Nov 2005 @ 7:07pm

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    CNN seems to think it's news.

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    Mike, 18 Nov 2005 @ 7:45am

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    Had one of these in '98. This isn't anything new.

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    Anonymous Coward, 21 Nov 2005 @ 2:00am

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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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