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iPhone App Replaces Stethoscope

iPhone App Replaces Stethoscope

Millions of doctors around the world have signed up for a free iPhone app that monitors heartbeats through sensors in the device.

The iStethoscope app, which was created for fun by the University College London, has caught fire with doctors, after being introduced earlier last week.

“Everybody is very excited about the potential of the adoption of mobile phone technology into the medical workplace, and rightly so,” said Peter Bentley, iStethoscope’s inventor. “Smartphones are incredibly powerful devices packed full of sensors, cameras, high-quality microphones with amazing displays.”

The heartbeat-monitoring app could be the first in a wave of medical-centered technology centered around smartphones. Handsets could even be used to conduct ultrasounds or monitor blood pressure.

But for now, an increasing number of doctors can now measure heart rate through their iPhones.

In May, Apple’s scientists filed a U.S. patent application for a new way to monitor the activity of the heart using electrodes on an iPhone, similar to methods found in high-end electrocardiogram, or EKG, sensors.

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