Smartphone screening doubled Afib detection

The eHealth-based Bavarian Alternative Detection of Atrial Fibrillation (eBRAVE-AF) trial asked older adult members of one German health insurer to use a smartphone app that measured pulse irregularities using the phone’s camera button and then wear a 14-day electrocardiogram patch in order to engage at-risk patients to seek a doctor’s treatment. 

WHY IT MATTERS

Afib is the most common heart rhythm disorder and is often hard to diagnose…