A Xiaomi treadmill with OpenBCI for ECG stress tests – a real bargain (part II)?

Last Updated on November 20, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

An ECG stress test at Sports medicine Berner Oberland is about 150 USD:

https://www.sportmedizin-berneroberland.ch/angebot/leistungsdiagnostik

And as usual in Zurich everything is a bit more expensive. For instance an ECG stress test (including lactate measurement) is about 325 USD at the Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich:

https://www.balgrist.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Fachbereiche/Sportmedizin/Leistungsdiagnostik/Preisliste-Leistungsdiagnostik-Balgrist.pdf

This is the best offer we found in Zurich. There are other offers in Zurich by medical doctors which do not publish their prices. Does this mean they even charge more? So we repeat the question: is not a Xiaomi treadmill with OpenBCI a real bargain compared to this? Even if we have to build the uplift mechanisms for the treadmill by ourselves? Also New York is expensive as Zurich is, and we therefore hope that Adafruit is also interested in this project and pics it up and realizes it. As well as the authors of Neurokit2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroKit

and write a paper about it. As well as the researchers of the University of Calgary:

Researchers from the University of Calgary found that a 3-lead ECG device based on the OpenBCI Cyton board can be used for HRV measurements instead of an industry-standard 3 lead ECG device from Adinstruments and costs only about 4%

And Milind Desai cardiologist and author of validation papers about consumer grade heart rate monitors at the Cleveland in Ohio. Is a consumer grade ECG stress treadmill not much more interesting than consumer grade heart rate monitors?

090. Review of Accuracy Studies of Consumer Grade Heart Rate Monitors: Methods, Testing Protocols, Reference Devices

Maybe not for Rob ter Horst and DC Rainmaker but we suppose for many others.