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This letter clarifies that the AliveCor hand-held electrocardiogram device was supplied specifically for clinical research purposes in a prior study on atrial fibrillation detection.
A letter to the editor discussing a prior study on the performance of hand-held ECG devices for detecting atrial fibrillation.
I read the article on the performance of two hand-held electrocardiogram devices for detecting atrial fibrillation by Desteghe et al. 1 with great interest. As the founder of AliveCor, I supplied the senior author Dr. Heidbuchel with the AliveCor device, as it was neither approved nor available for sale in Belgium at that time, and his group understood that it could be used only for clinical research purposes. It had been approved by the FDA and EC …
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D.J. Albert (2016) conducted a letter in Atrial fibrillation. AliveCor hand-held electrocardiogram device was evaluated. This letter clarifies that the AliveCor hand-held electrocardiogram device was supplied specifically for clinical research purposes in a prior study on atrial fibrillation detection.
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