Now playing: Watch this: Tomorrow’s medical breakthrough? You’re already wearing… 2:41 It turns out the Apple Watch is a pretty mediocre heart rate sensor by medical standards, but researchers at the University of California, San Francisco used an app called Cardiogram with some machine learning to make the Watch a 97 percent accurate detector of …
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The first iOS app to roll up FDA-approved electrocardiogram (ECG) and blood pressure readings in a single display was introduced Thursday by AliveCor. It’s the latest example of the increasing importance of health and medical insights in a field dominated by simpler heart rate bands. AliveCor’s Kardia Mobile app pulls data from the $99 Kardia handheld device, which records ECG …
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The smartphone put most of our daily life into one small device, but when it comes to health and medical wearables, your personal Star Trek-like tricorder is still a ways off. That’s the consensus at the Parks Associates Connected Health Summit in San Diego this week where specialized blood pressure watches, under-skin glucose monitors, pain relief cuffs and even posture …
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