MELBOURNE: Scientists are in the final stages of launching a mobile phone with a miniature heart monitor and a GPS device that would help keep track of rehabilitation of patients thousands of kilometres away.

"The programme allows people who have been in hospital for a heart attack or heart surgery to undergo a six-week walking exercise rehabilitation programme wherever it's convenient, while having their heart signal, location and speed monitored in real time," said Charles Worringham of Queensland University of Technology's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation.

The ‘Cardiomobile' system works by the patient attaching to their chests a mini ECG monitor and wearing a cap with a lightweight GPS receiver, both connected to a mobile phone via Bluetooth."Heart signal, location, speed and gradient are monitored in real-time over the web by a qualified exercise scientist," Worringham was quoted in the 'Science Daily' .

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