Portable electrocardiography with cloud based features: A review of current technologies

Abstract

With recent trend of mobile being affordable and handy, electrocardiography (ECG) composed in smart and compact systems for use in out-of-hospital settings are being made commercially available. Mobile are important medical innovation which has high potential to transform to homecare. We performed this review to learn on the current availability of mobile technologies with respect to their scope, ease of use, data transmission capabilities, diagnostic accuracy and cloud based features. We conducted and Internet searches for or patch or portable electrocardiography to enlist current available technologies. We also searched specific mobile to obtain additional citations. We classified available as a single limb lead recording devices and chest-lead ECG recording Three electrodes also defined as the conventional electrocardiography or Holter machine are excluded from this review. A total of 12 have been reviewed and identified as handheld, patch and portable with four fall into each of the categories. Nine of the reviewed have electrode attachment in the chest and the rest are handheld devices. All are very lightweight as they weight under 150g and easy to bring everywhere. We concluded that the number of available that can record and analyze signals is on the rise. with cloud based monitoring and analysis system involves various fields such as sensor technology, communication, software design, signal processing and data mining.