Healthy heart (L) and heart in failure

“Good morning. Bill. Please. Step onto the scale. Touch the metal pads.” The device records an electrocardiogram from Bill’s fingers and — more importantly — circulation pulsing that makes his body subtly bob up and down. Machine learning tools compute that Bill’s heart failure symptoms have worsened.”  This is how engineers at Georgia Tech reimagined the common bathroom scale becoming a medical monitor that could better track heart disease, and perhaps reduce hospital readmissions.     MORE

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