A mobile phone app which records a user's heartbeat could pave the way for doctors to monitor cardiac patients remotely, new research suggests. In a study led by King's and Maastricht University, ...

In early September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new digital stethoscope, which records heart sounds and stores them in the cloud, which can be accessed through an iPhone app. Here ...

Results showed that: Cardiologists missed an S3 gallop 40 percent more often with a non-electronic stethoscope than with a Littmann Electronic Stethoscope Model 3000 Series. 83 percent reported that ...

Electronic stethoscopes aren't new, but this is the first one to incorporate the heart sounds with a smartphone app or with the patient's electronic records. (AP Photo) One of the oldest medical ...

Family doctors’ iPhones may soon be incorporated into regular checkups to help monitor and detect heart conditions, thanks to a new startup company run by UC Berkeley students. When Eko Devices’ CEO, ...

Dumb health care devices are no longer OK. With medical errors and redundancies costing us $750 billion a year, the push is on to digitize all forms of health information. That’s probably one of the ...

The Internet of Things and advances in technology—among them higher-resolution imaging, device connectivity, miniaturized motion components, and 3D printing—are forcing several medical devices to ...