AliveCor launches smartphone-enabled heart monitor, analysis services direct-to-consumer

AliveCor launches smartphone-enabled heart monitor, analysis services direct-to-consumer

Mobihealth News – San Francisco-based AliveCor announced that the FDA has granted its smartphone-enabled, single-channel ECG (electrocardiogram) recorder device over-the-counter (OTC) clearance. The company is now taking direct-to-consumer preorders for the device at a $199 pricepoint. It expects to begin shipping them in early March. Up until now the AliveCor device has only been made available to physicians and other medical professionals, who could also prescribe them to their patients.