I wore a heart monitor for a month and want the data. I've called and
exchanged email with "Bio Telemetry, a Phillips company", and all I've
received is a stack of paper with a "Daily Patient Report" for each
day. (Well I've also received a statement from BCBS saying that they
won't pay Bio Telemetry $9,000). My first/primary question to HN is:
Do you have advice on how to get the actual data?
My second question for non-US readers:
Does $9,000 seem excessive?
Background: For 10 minutes in April I was seeing double. Fearing that
it was a transient ischemic attack, MDs ordered lots of tests. The
heart monitor was to check for arrhythmias that could cause a clot. I
was surprised that the study found ventricular tachycardia; see:
https://www.fraserphysics.com/page2_ecg_report.pdf
Coincidentally, I have been thinking about ECGs and have written code
for analyzing them; see Section 6.3.1 of my book at
https://www.fraserphysics.com/book.pdf. My third question is for
anyone who knows about ECG analysis technology:
Is the analysis technique I describe in Section 6.3.1 interesting/novel?
PS. None of the test results are very disturbing. I believe that my
event was related to the migraines that I have all too often.
