The usefulness of our mobile devices in the control of our health or even of many diseases is fashionable, and is still in a very incipient phase, as shown by the incessant arrival of new devices that monitor our sleep, allow us to better control our diabetes or we control the activity of our heart, like AliveCor. This company offers us a tiny device that connected by Bluetooth to our iPhone and with its Kardia application will perform an electrocardiogram (ECG) trace. that will allow us to diagnose and control arrhythmias and other cardiac alterations. We show you how it works on video.
The small AliveCor Mobile ECG works with a button battery and is smaller than a credit card, so we can comfortably carry it in our pocket or stick it to our iPhone, a case or use one of the compatible cases that AliveCor puts on our provision. It is accompanied by a free application, Kardia, which is the one that collects all the information, saves it in our account and allows us to send it to whoever we want.
The application is not designed so that we ourselves are the ones to diagnose anything, nor does the application itself. The information collected can be sent to our doctor and he will obviously be the one who, depending on the route received, will interpret whether there is a problem or not. It is a device that comfortably and in just a few seconds can obtain information that, otherwise, we could only obtain in a hospital or medical consultation. It is obviously not intended to be a substitute for a professional electrocardiograph, because it only offers us a tracing, when in clinical practice what we use are 12 different tracings (derivations), but the information it offers us is enough to carry out specific controls without the need to leave home.
AliveCor is about to launch a strap for the Apple Watch from which we will talk to you at the time and that does the same as this small device that we are talking about today but from our watch. If we have the opportunity to try it, do not doubt that we will show it to you in operation and we will give you our impressions about it. In the meantime, for those who don't have a watch or don't want to wait, they can get their AliveCor Mobile ECG at official website of the company for $ 99. The application is only available in the United States App Store, but being free it is very easy to get it by following the steps in this guide.
