Heart-monitoring Bluetooth EKG Affordable Technology (HeartBEAT)

Client:

Hansen Lui, Joris Ramstein & Jon-Kai Yang

Background

Electrocardiography is the process of recording the electrical activity of the heart over a period of time using electrodes placed on a patient’s body. These electrodes detect the tiny electrical changes on the skin that arise from the heart muscle depolarizing during each heartbeat. The technology is relatively simple and extremely useful, but it is unfortunately not available to all. However, everyone owns a smartphone nowadays, even in remote locations and in the developing world.

Project Description

The goal of our project is to develop a 3-lead, afforable, portable and iphone bluetooth-connected EKG system using arduino technology. Our goals are to:

1. Be able to collect live data from the electrodes to the iphone
2. Show the data in real-time as a graph
3. Collect and analyze the data during effort and movement for extended periods of time
4. Provide real-time feedback and analysis to the user

Contributors

name	github handle	nano-bio
Hansen Lui	@HanZen13	UCB-UCSF 1st year medical student interested in health technology
Joris Ramstein	@jorjorbinx	UCB-UCSF 1st year medical student interested in health technology
Jon-Kai Yang	@GitOnion	UCB MIMS Student