According to their website, AliveCor has just made their new portable IPhone ECG monitor available to patients with a prescription from their doctors. Looks like a good, quick way to record your AF and other cardiac events so that your doctor can review them. [shop.alivecor.com] At my next end of Feb EP appointment, think I ask him for a prescription for one of these monitors. Looks like it would be more user friendly than my MedChoice handheld ECG. I also use a Garmin Forerunner 405 but it is not very user friendly either. https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,136594#msg-136594 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:38:01 +0000 Phorum 5.2.23 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,137369#msg-137369 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,137369#msg-137369
Anyone have any luck getting one of these?

Gary]]> gleeloyd AFIBBERS FORUM Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:45:23 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,136623#msg-136623 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,136623#msg-136623
"The Heart Monitor also uses AliveCor’s proprietary wireless communication protocol to communicate with the app, and requires no pairing between the iPhone and the Heart Monitor."

Since we aren't pros using this all day, I'm guessing it will work without actually snapping onto the phone, just need to be in proximity. I happen to like my Otterbox case for the protection it provides and would be reticent to give it up.

I'm also looking for an iPhone heart rate monitor & app to replace the functionality of my Polar. While you can "see" more with a real ECG like the AliveCor, the nice part about the Polar is longer term monitoring. You can distinguish many things such as PVC's, PAC's and afib. This is generally all I need to know. Also you can read a Polar by inspection vs having to look a lot harder at an ECG (I have a primitive ECG and it is a pain to interpret).

George]]> GeorgeN AFIBBERS FORUM Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:39:41 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,136622#msg-136622 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,136622#msg-136622 McHale AFIBBERS FORUM Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:08:51 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,136618#msg-136618 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,136618#msg-136618 DavidS AFIBBERS FORUM Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:49:30 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,136613#msg-136613 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,136613#msg-136613 McHale AFIBBERS FORUM Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:52:00 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,136595#msg-136595 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,136595#msg-136595
Shannon]]> Shannon AFIBBERS FORUM Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:53:42 +0000 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,136594#msg-136594 https://www.afibbers.org/forum/read.php?9,136594,136594#msg-136594 Looks like a good, quick way to record your AF and other cardiac events so that your doctor can review them.

[shop.alivecor.com]

At my next end of Feb EP appointment, think I ask him for a prescription for one of these monitors. Looks like it would be more user friendly than my MedChoice handheld ECG.
I also use a Garmin Forerunner 405 but it is not very user friendly either.]]> RalphL AFIBBERS FORUM Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:23:04 +0000