Mobile app promises to deliver ECG, blood pressure data

Preventing a stroke requires constant monitoring of atrial fibrillation and blood pressure, but these factors have yet to be incorporated into one device. AliveCor, a developer of mobile health services, has introduced a new app capable of performing an ECG while simultaneously monitoring blood pressure.

AliveCor will combine the Omron Healthcare Bluetooth-enabled home blood pressure device with its ECG Kardia Mobile application in a single device. The double function of the application provides patient with a more comprehensive tool to measure heart health while also improving monitoring and giving patients a way personalize heart care.

Making patient more active in their care using the app allows them to work together with their physicians to make a personalized care plan for them to help lower their risk of stroke.  

"Giving patients the ability to monitor two vital heart health statistics for stroke in one place has the opportunity to be life-changing," said David Albert, MD, CMO at AliveCor. "With this combined data, patients can change their most important modifiable risk factor, blood pressure, and seek the right care that could improve heart health and prevent a stroke. Today we are one step closer to achieving our mission of making the ECG a vital statistic for not just cardiologists, but also patients, physicians and caregivers."