For nearly a century, the electrocardiogram has demanded an awkward ritual: ten electrodes, a tangle of wires, and a patient stripped to the waist and pinned to a bed. That ritual has kept the most diagnostically powerful cardiac test locked inside hospitals, even as smartwatches and adhesive patches have brought single-lead heart tracking to millions […]
For nearly a century, the electrocardiogram has demanded an awkward ritual: ten electrodes, a tangle of wires, and a patient stripped to the waist and pinned to a bed.
That ritual has kept the most diagnostically powerful cardiac test locked inside hospitals, even as smartwatches and adhesive patches have brought single-lead heart tracking to millions […]
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For nearly a century, the electrocardiogram has demanded an awkward ritual: ten electrodes, a tangle of wires, and a patient stripped to the waist and pinned to a bed. That ritual has kept the most diagnostically powerful cardiac test locked inside hospitals, even as smartwatches and adhesive patches have brought single-lead heart tracking to millions […]
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