Category: fundamentals
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What Cardiomic Is — and What It Is Not
Cardiomic is a smartphone-based heart observation app. It uses the phone’s microphone to capture heart sounds, processes the signal locally on the device, and presents waveform and rhythm-related measurements for self-observation. It is not a medical device and does not provide diagnosis. This article answers the main questions about Cardiomic: what it is, what it…
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Why Medical Students Should Record Their Own Heart Sounds
A gap in medical training Medical students spend years learning to recognize heart sounds —yet most of them have never recorded their own. Traditional training relies on two main approaches: listening to patients in clinical settings and studying curated or simulated audio. Both are valuable. But they share a limitation: they rarely give students a…