Dive Brief:
- Medical device company AliveCor has announced that its HeartMonitor ECG readings can now be imported directly into Practice Fusion's EMR, offering a real-time link to a patient's heart readings.
- The AliveCor Heart Monitor is an FDA cleared mobile ECG recorder, supporting both iPhone and Android smart phones, which records, displays, stores and transfers single channel ECG rhythms wirelessly.
- Practice Fusion, for its part, offers a free EMR used by about 100,000 physicians around the country, according to Practice Fusion officials.
Dive Insight:
AliveCor is just one of a growing number of competitors in the mobile heart monitoring field. And it's one of hundreds of new wireless medical devices that interoperate with and rely on smart phones. But it is unique in that it can beam its data directly into an EMR. Expect to see other wireless medical devices connect up with EMRs very soon. This is most definitely the wave of the future.