Wearable Devices for Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring
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Ambulatory monitoring devices are enabling a new paradigm of health care by collecting and analyzing long-term data for reliable diagnostics. These devices are becoming increasingly popular for continuous monitoring of cardiac diseases. Recent advancements have enabled solutions that are both affordable and reliable, allowing monitoring of vulnerable populations from the comfort of their homes. They provide early detection of important physiological events, leading to timely alerts for seeking medical attention. In this review, the authors aim to summarize the recent developments in the area of ambulatory and remote monitoring solutions for cardiac diagnostics. The authors cover solutions based on wearable devices, smartphones, and other ambulatory sensors. The authors also present an overview of the limitations of current technologies, their effectiveness, and their adoption in the general population, and discuss some of the recently proposed methods to overcome these challenges. Lastly, we discuss the possibilities opened by this new paradigm, for the future of health care and personalized medicine.
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Biomechanical sensors incorporated into clothing or shoes have been developed to passively and continuously measure variables such as cardiac output, lung fluid volume and weight, which could be beneficial in managing conditions such as heart failure.
“Biomechanical sensors incorporated into clothing or shoes, such as ballistocardiograms, seismocardiograms and dielectric sensors, have been developed in an attempt to passively and continuously measure variables such as cardiac output, lung fluid volume and weight1, which could be beneficial in managing conditions such as HF.”
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In one survey, two-thirds of millennials agreed to share their wearable data with insurance companies.
“Although two-thirds of millennials in one survey agreed to share their wearable data with insurance companies1, applying financial and non-financial rewards with penalties raises several ethical questions.”
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- Authors
- Sana, F., Isselbacher, E. M., Singh, J. P., Heist, E. K., Pathik, B., & Armoundas, A. A.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Mount Sinai Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- Armoundas, Antonis A.
- Venue
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-04
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 1582-1592
- ISSN
- 0735-1097 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7316129
- OpenAlex
- W3013206380
- Cited by
- 362
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 62 · 2025: 59 · 2024: 60 · 2023: 64 · 2022: 54 · 2021: 48 · 2020: 15
- FWCI
- 3.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- American Heart Association
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › ECG Monitoring and Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Wireless Body Area Networks
- Keywords
- wearable devices, ambulatory cardiac monitoring, remote patient monitoring, smartphone health monitoring, cardiac diagnostics, home monitoring, telemedicine, personalized medicine
- MeSH terms
- Smartphone, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Wearable Electronic Devices, Arrhythmias, Cardiac, Exercise Test, Humans, Electrocardiography, Ambulatory, Technology Transfer, Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory
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