Top

AliveCor Releases Apple Watch EKG Band Kardia

March 22, 2016

Category:

AliveCor this week introduced the Kardia Band for the Apple Watch, which will let users capture a single-lead EKG by just touching the watch’s band.

AliveCor is best known for its smartphone EKG device, the AliveCor Heart Monitor,which the company has now rebranded Kardia Mobile. That device uses a small smartphone attachment with two embedded electrodes to let users capture a single-lead EKG by just touching both of the electrodes with their hands or to their chest. Perhaps the most interesting feature of that device is how the data is transmitted to the smartphone – using an inaudible ultrasonic signal that’s picked up by the smartphone’s microphone and converted back to an EKG signal.

Read More on MedPageToday