The virtual heart can be inserted into a virtual torso to get a simulated electrocardiogram.

BBC: Virtual heart

The virtual heart should be able to help in earlier stages of the drug-development process, too.

ECONOMIST: Model behaviour

And if you run enough virtual heart cells in parallel you have, in effect, created a virtual heart.

ECONOMIST: Model behaviour

Physiome's virtual heart allows drug companies to test the effects of their compounds electronically before they try them on real people and even to do experiments that would be unacceptable in the material world.

ECONOMIST: Model behaviour

Since drug molecules can also be represented by computer models, it will eventually be possible to throw a huge range of virtual compounds at a virtual heart to see which, if any, have the desired effect.

ECONOMIST: Model behaviour

For example, AirStrip offers virtual real time remote patient heart monitoring technology to a broad array of acute patient clinical settings.

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Instances (virtual machine instances) are the heart of Google Compute Engine.

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