The Vital ECG has been launched by GOQii, the smart-tech enabled platform of preventive healthcare in association with the Bollywood Icon and one of the best known for his fitness, Akshay Kumar. The technology of this Vital ECG will get you the access to your heart’s health right on your fingertips.
Tricog Health, a platform which is best known for accurately interpreting the ECG readings with medical expertise and advanced technology will be responsible for the reports provided by GOQii Vital ECG.
According to the reports by World Health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular disease became the cause behind the loss of 17.7 million lives in 2015. Every year around 1.5-3 million deaths in India is caused due to heart attacks. The justification behind so many losses is the lack of awareness. The chances of survival during a heart attack is over 80% providing the action being taken within the first 2 hours. Unfortunately, the journey from symptoms to treatment takes over 6 hours in India.
ECG tests are conducted by most of the people not before suffering a cardiac episode at least once despite this test being inexpensive and quick. This is merely because most of the primary care clinics are hardly equipped with ECG machines due to their complex nature and higher cost. Nevertheless, ECG interpretation requires some training which a lot of primary care doctors haven’t received.
The GOQii Vital ECG will make the diagnosis process easy and readily available since it can record a one lead ECG off the user’s wrist. Once the ECG report appears on GOQii health locker, users will get the option to consult a specialist. Also, at a reasonable fee, an online consultation with a cardiac specialist can be booked. In order to recommend changes, the ECG report and the lifestyle data will be analysed by the specialist.
The band will supposedly also have features which will be able to detect serious heart conditions like Atrial Fibrillation. This could be made possible by Tricog Health’s DeepRhythm, a deep learning-based Arrhythmia detection algorithm. This detection algorithm will provide the GOQii’s users with the exact interpretation of their single-lead ECG. What’s to be noted is that GOQii Vital ECG is not a medical-grade device but only a screening device.
The GOQii Vital ECG is a wrist wearable device designed primarily to guide its user with his/her cardiac condition by providing the ECG reports and an online consultation with a specialist at a nominal fee.
