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An iPhone app that measures the user's heart rate is not only a popular feature with consumers, but it sparked an idea for a researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), in Worcester, MA, who is now turning smart phones, and eventually tablet devices, into sophisticated medical monitors able to capture and transmit vital physiological data.

Smart phone apps to medical monitors