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The Food and Drug Administration has granted approval to AliveCor for its smartphone-based atrial fibrillation detection algorithm.

The company says the algorithm instantly detects if patients are experiencing AFib through real-time electrocardiogram recordings taken on a mobile phone-based AliveCor Heart Monitor, so physicians can intervene before potentially life-threatening conditions, like strokes, occur. Through AliveCor’s ECG analysis service, patients can confirm their results with a U.S. board-certified cardiologist or a personal physician.

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