Engineers develop wearable heart attack detection technology

How do you get a decent ECG with a wearable that has a single point of contact with the skin. If you need to touch a contact on the device to get a two lead equivalent ECG then how can this be real time monitoring?

Article seems very light on details. Is this trying to detect ECG markers of heart attacks (like ST segment issues)? Is it somehow detecting troponin in the blood stream? How? And how are they going to prevent false positives if this is indeed a wrist-based device as I imagine it will be?

This kind of technology has been technologically viable for decades. The fact that we’re only now seeing prototypes, not mass adoption, is an indictment of the legal framework around medical devices.<p>The FDA classifies these devices as high-risk because they might give a false result but completely ignores the guaranteed harm of not having them at all. It’s a system that punishes action and rewards delay.

Is the ECG for a heart attack the same for women and men?<p>The symptoms aren’t.

Awesome