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Holter manufacturers provide software diagnostic tools to assist clinicians in evaluating these large amounts of data. Nevertheless, the identification of short arrhythmia events and differentiation of the arrhythmia type might be a problem in limited Holter ECG leads. This observational clinical study aims to explore a novel and weakly investigated ECG modality integrated into a commercial diagnostic tool ECHOView (medilog DARWIN 2, Schiller AG, Switzerland), while used for the interpretation of long-term Holter-ECG records by a cardiologist. The ECHOView transformation maps the beat waveform amplitude to a color-coded bar. One ECHOView page integrates stacked color bars of about 1740 sequential beats aligned by R-peak in a window (R \u00b1 750 ms). The collected 3-lead Holter ECG recordings from 86 patients had a valid duration of 21 h 20 min (19 h 30 min\u201322 h 45 min), median (quartile range). The ECG rhythm was reviewed with 3491 (3192\u20133723) standard-grid ECG pages and a substantially few number of 51 (44\u201359) ECHOView pages that validated the ECHOView compression ratio of 67 (59\u201374) times. Comments on the ECG rhythm and ECHOView characteristic patterns are provided for 14 examples representative of the most common rhythm disorders seen in our population, including supraventricular arrhythmias (supraventricular extrasystoles, paroxysmal supraventricular arrhythmia, sinus tachycardia, supraventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, and flutter) and ventricular arrhythmias (ventricular extrasystoles, non-sustained ventricular tachycardia). In summary, the ECHOView color map transforms the ECG modality into a novel diagnostic image of the patient\u2019s rhythm that is comprehensively interpreted by a cardiologist. 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