Users of the
Pulse Phone app may be justifiably impressed at the way in which it lets them measure their heart rate, simply by placing their finger over their iPhone’s lens. Well, a biomedical engineer at Maryland’s Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has taken that concept several steps farther. Inspired by Pulse Phone, Prof. Ki Chon developed an Android app that measures not only heart rate, but also heart rhythm, respiration rate and blood oxygen saturation – all through a finger against the lens. Measurements made by the app are said to be as accurate as those obtained using standard medical monitors... Continue Reading
App turns smartphone into a medical monitor