AliveCor has updated its AliveECG app adding a new feature that allows users to log and tag daily activities, symptoms and events in real-time that can impact heart health and work to identify abnormalities. Called The Heart Journal, it enables users to add events and tags around their ECG recordings, such as drinking coffee, exercise level or medical procedures, to better understand their heart health.
Additionally, the company also unveiled a new metric which measures how much the heartbeat changes from beat to beat in ECG (or EKG) recordings. Beat Fluctuation was designed by AliveCor as a way to experiment with lifestyle changes and what may be impacting heart health.
These new features are made to help users not only learn more about their own heart health, but also contribute data to the global understanding of heart arrhythmias.
“Based on analysis of the AliveCor patient population we found that the chances a patient tags palpitations, shortness of breath, slept poorly or anxiety are higher when they have a detected cardiac episode,” said Euan Thomson, president and CEO of AliveCor. “Our goal is to further attack heart arrhythmias head on. By collecting more data in a community effort we can work to try and develop more insights and advance the science around what might be triggering and impacting patients.”
AliveCor also unveiled a new metric which measures how much the heartbeat changes from beat to beat in ECG (or EKG) recordings.Currently thousands of patients a month are creating more than 40,000 different tags after they record an ECG. With the new Heart Journal users can now document their lifestyle factors anytime – with or without an ECG recording.
AliveCor’s Mobile ECG device is intended to record, store and transfer single-channel ECG rhythms. It also displays ECG rhythms and detects the presence of atrial fibrillation and normal sinus rhythm, when prescribed or used under the care of a physician.
AliveCor’s updated app is available now for Android users and in the coming months for iPhone owners.