Heartbeat Monitoring App

Offering heart patients, who need to monitor their rapid or irregular heart beat, an easier solution, researchers have found promise in a palpitation tracking smartphone app that provides comparable performance to the 14-day event monitors that are the current standard of care.

The iPhone could soon replace the doctors' best friend, the traditional stethoscope, thanks to a free application created by a University College London researcher.Peter Bentley invented the 'iStethoscope' application which monitors heartbeat through sensors in the iPhone as just a...

Offering heart patients, who need to monitor their rapid or irregular heart beat, an easier solution, researchers have found promise in a palpitation tracking smartphone app that provides comparable performance to the 14-day event monitors that are the current standard of care.

The iPhone could soon replace the doctors' best friend, the traditional stethoscope, thanks to a free application created by a University College London researcher.Peter Bentley invented the 'iStethoscope' application which monitors heartbeat through sensors in the iPhone as just a...