Medical Xpress October 7, 2022
A mobile phone app which records a user’s heartbeat could pave the way for doctors to monitor cardiac patients remotely, new research suggests.
In a study led by King’s and Maastricht University, researchers analyzed more than 5,000 heart sound recordings captured on the “Echoes” app and ruled the quality was good enough it could be used by the general population.
Echoes, developed in collaboration with cardiac patients through the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Evelina Children’s Heart Organization (ECHO), and with experts at Cellule Design Studio, uses a smartphone’s inbuilt microphone to record heart sounds—users simply hold their phone against their chest, hit record, then save.
Once someone has saved a recording of their heart, it is added to a...
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