Interpretation of Electrocardiogram Images Sent Through the Mobile Phone Multimedia Messaging Service

Abstract

Our findings suggest that sending the ECG images via a multimedia message service may be a practical and inexpensive telecardiology procedure.

The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technologies to Improve Health Care Service Delivery Processes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…One trial reported better performance in a cardiac arrest simulation for health care providers allocated to receiving a mobile phone application regarding advanced life support [67]. One trial reported more errors in interpreting ECGs delivered by MMS compared to paper print-outs [68].…”

Speed and accuracy of text-messaging emergency department electrocardiograms from a small community hospital to a provincial referral center

“…Emergency physicians interpreted all EKGs, and interpretation may have varied when compared to cardiologists or internists, although prior work suggests inter-specialty interpretation of EKGs may be similar. 17 The errors in interpretation of the texted images compared to the original EKC may be a concern. However, they may be no more than natural intra-observer variation, and the disagreements may be not be related to the quality of the texted images.…”

Avaliação do foto-eletrocardiograma como ferramenta de segunda opinião formativa

“…16 No presente estudo, os resultados obtidos mostram uma concordância considerável entre as análises dos ECGs originais e dos foto-ECGs adquiridos pela câmera digital (72%) ou do celular (74%). Resultados ainda mais expressivos foram encontrados na pesquisa de Bilgi et al, 16 onde foi analisada a acurácia na interpretação de 305 ECGs obtidos em uma emergência, fotografados por um celular e enviados por sistema de mensagem multimídia ao celular de um cardiologista remoto.…”