Patent Watch: A Heart Monitor in Your Phone

Wireless, ultrasonic personal health monitoring system: Instantaneous and personal health information at your fingertips--that is the oft-imagined innovation that could change medicine. Physician-inventor David Albert, chief medical officer of AliveCor, headquartered in San Francisco, first envisioned a portable, easy way to measure personal heart health when Palm Pilots debuted in the late 1990s. Smartphone processors, however, were not powerful enough until the latest generation of devices such as the Droid and the iPhone. [More]
Source: Scientific American Topic - Medical Technology - Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Technology,Health,Technology,Computing,More Science,Biotechnology,Medical Technology,Biology,Everyday Science Source Type: news