AliveCor

Khosla: Video visits aren't new technology, just the same doctors making same subjective judgements
By Aditi Pai | 01:04 pm | October 29, 2015
The next generation of digital health offerings will use machine learning to treat patients more effectively, but it's still a decade away, according to Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, who spoke at Partners HealthCare's Connected Health Symposium in Boston this week.
More than half of AliveCor users who detect atrial fibrillation find it in a week
By Jonah Comstock | 11:22 am | September 10, 2015
It's been almost a year since AliveCor began offering its first FDA-cleared algorithm, its atrial fibrillation detection algorithm, to customers.
Intermountain tests AliveCor against 12-lead ECG for heart attack detection
By Jonah Comstock | 08:23 am | July 16, 2015
Utah health system Intermountain Healthcare -- and other, as yet unknown providers -- appear to be investigating AliveCor's smartphone ECG device in a clinical context, to determine whether the iPhone version of the device is comparable with traditional 12-lead ECGs.
What's missing from HBR's healthcare Gold Rush metaphor?
By Jonah Comstock | 12:15 pm | June 22, 2015
A recent column in the Harvard Business Review says that two kinds of business strategies will dominate in the gold rush-like healthcare economy of the future: Goldminers and Bartenders.
AliveCor ECG gets FDA clearance for two more algorithms
By Jonah Comstock | 05:02 am | January 29, 2015
AliveCor's AF detection algorithm San Francisco-based AliveCor has received FDA clearance for two new algorithms for its smartphone-connected ECG: one that detects normality and one that detects interference.
Cleveland Clinic study: 92 percent of patients prefer AliveCor to traditional monitor
By Jonah Comstock | 10:08 am | January 07, 2015
Smartphone ECG company AliveCor announced the publication of a long-awaited independent trial of the technology conducted by the Cleveland Clinic.
AliveCor's third generation is thinner, lighter, and less than half the price
By Jonah Comstock | 01:56 pm | December 18, 2014
AliveCor launched its new third generation smartphone-connected EKG device, a model that is both slimmed down and considerably cheaper than its predecessors.
Omron, AliveCor partner to bring smartphone ECG to retail locations
By Aditi Pai | 10:15 am | December 10, 2014
Japan-based medical device company Omron Healthcare has partnered with AliveCor to help bring AliveCor's FDA-cleared smartphone-connected electrocardiogram (ECG) to more online and brick and mortar retailers.
AliveCor's ECG device now works with GreatCall smartphones
By Jonah Comstock | 07:02 am | October 30, 2014
Smartphone-enabled ECG medical device maker AliveCor and Greatcall, which makes a line of mobile phones and health services marketed to seniors, have partnered to bring the AliveCor device to GreatCall phones.
AliveCor launches new app with FDA-cleared AFib algorithm
By Jonah Comstock | 05:38 am | September 29, 2014
Smartphone-enabled heart monitor device maker AliveCor has launched a new app for patients, which is both timed with the new iOS 8 launch and incorporates the atrial fibrillation algorithm the company received FDA clearance for in August.