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Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Date Submitted: Jul 18, 2018
Open Peer Review Period: Jul 21, 2018 - Sep 13, 2018
Date Accepted: Nov 25, 2018
(closed for review but you can still tweet)

The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

The Current State of Mobile Phone Apps for Monitoring Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, and Atrial Fibrillation: Narrative Review

Li KHC, White FA, Tipoe T, Liu T, Wong MC, Jesuthasan A, Baranchuk A, Tse G, Yan BP

The Current State of Mobile Phone Apps for Monitoring Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, and Atrial Fibrillation: Narrative Review

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019;7(2):e11606

DOI: 10.2196/11606

PMID: 30767904

PMCID: 6396075

Current State of Smartphone Applications for Monitoring of Heart-rate, Heart-rate Variability and Atrial Fibrillation: A Narrative Review

  • Ka Hou Christien Li; 
  • Francesca Anne White; 
  • Timothy Tipoe; 
  • Tong Liu; 
  • Martin CS Wong; 
  • Aaron Jesuthasan; 
  • Adrian Baranchuk; 
  • Gary Tse; 
  • Bryan P Yan

ABSTRACT

Background:

Smartphone applications capable of monitoring arrhythmias and heart rate are becoming widely available.

Objective:

These applications involve either the use of (1) photoplethysmographical recording or (2) a hand-held external electrocardiographic recording device attached to the smartphone or wristband. This enables recordings to be obtained for analysis, which could be useful for screening, diagnosis and monitoring of heart rate and rhythm disorders. This is especially relevant within the context of public health given the increasing burden of AF in many societies.

Methods:

We conducted a narrative review into the use of smartphone devices by searching PubMed and Embase from their inception to October 2018.

Results:

Potentially relevant papers were then compared against a checklist for relevance and reviewed independently for inclusion, with the focus on four allocated topics of i) smartphone monitoring, ii) atrial fibrillation, iii) heart rate and iv) heart rate variability.

Conclusions:

This review seeks to explore the current state of smartphone applications in cardiac rhythmology while highlighting shortcomings for further research to be conducted.


 Citation

Please cite as:

Li KHC, White FA, Tipoe T, Liu T, Wong MC, Jesuthasan A, Baranchuk A, Tse G, Yan BP

The Current State of Mobile Phone Apps for Monitoring Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, and Atrial Fibrillation: Narrative Review

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019;7(2):e11606

DOI: 10.2196/11606

PMID: 30767904

PMCID: 6396075

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