Apple would be collaborating with Stanford University and the American medical provider American Well in order to determine if the Apple Watch could be used to detect abnormal heart rhythms as well as common heart conditions.
If an Apple Watch were able to accurately detect arrhythmias or other abnormal heart patterns, it could also be used to identify patients who are at risk of some type of disease or cardiovascular accident.
The Apple Watch in the fight against cardiovascular diseases
Bob Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, has pointed out that "atrial fibrillation is a common rhythm disorder and knowing that someone has it is medically helpful because those people may need specific treatments." That is, while cardiac arrhythmias are not always symptoms of serious illness, Apple Watch might detect them and notify the user so that he can go to his doctor for a check-up and accurately determine your health status.
Previously, a study conducted by the University of California and the team behind the development of the Cardiogram application, determined that Apple Watch could detect abnormal heart rhythms with 97% accuracyn, but that those results could still be more accurate given that Apple has a large amount of raw data.
In an interview with Fortune, Apple CEO Tim Cook has spoken out about Apple's interest in health, stating that it is Apple finds "extremely interested" in health and that it represents a great business opportunity.
Cook has also expressed how the Apple Watch is already helping many people who collect data with their watch and, when cutting that something is not going well, they go to the doctor to make sure. "A not insignificant number have discovered that if they had not gone to the doctor they would have died"Cook said.
According to informed CNBC, Apple's study in association with American Well and Stanford will begin later this year.
Good afternoon, I do not know what margin of precision it will have for these measurements, because my apple watch Nike + is the second time I send it to technical support due to erroneous measurements, the first time they told me that they did not find any error and they sent it to me back home, and this second time I send it, I don't know the answer they will give me. In principle, I do not see so much precision to make it so effective for this type of medical data unless it is improved, or is mine wrong? I dont know….
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