Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Apple Watch 4, Preview of Medical-Monitoring Features

Here's an article regarding the Apple Watch 4 and what are suppose to be built in medical monitoring features.

Here's the link: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/apple-watch-series-4-will-have-fda-cleared-ecg-fall-detection?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRVMk0yVmxNamsyWkRneiIsInQiOiJjWXRoaVpENmhJYlBRNFlzVVBYZ3hrc0VEVFdsYmNLUG1FQUIrQmcyMnVHMTRwSnBORDh6cW1Da1kzbjJqS2JxbHcydjRuTk0zaG5qRzBvMFR1MmdiMmZyNGhyXC9SZmYyYkduaSs5R0tyRG85TXkrMHVxTnFFYXFrVE5jWHpIRWwifQ%3D%3D

Here's the list of new medically-related features:


  1. ECG (30 second rhythm "strip")
  2. A-Fib detection (of course, if you're paying attention and you know the symptoms, you'll probably know sooner than the watch.)
  3. Fall detection (as in when the person falls, the watch detects that it has occurred)
All information is sent back to Apple Health Records where all this information be accessible to a physician/cardiologist.

Apple has received FDA approval, according to the article. 

I'm not going to comment until I've had a little more time to study the Apple Watch 4 except to say, if you can detect A-Fib, then why not V-Fib? V-Fib is much more life threatening. Also too, if you've got a 30 second rhythm snap shot, you can do a lot with that. 

I'll touch on these and other questions regarding the Apple Watch 4 and Apple's effort to product a remote medical monitoring device and medical monitoring system later. 


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