Healthcare Informatics September 12, 2018
In a move that signals Apple’s ongoing push into digital health, the technology company announced today during its annual fall product event in Cupertino, California that its new Series 4 Apple Watch includes an electrocardiogram function as well as fall detection capabilities.
In a press release issued today, Apple said the Apple Watch Series 4 with watchOS 5 brings “advanced activity and communications features, along with revolutionary health capabilities, including a new accelerometer and gyroscope, which are able to detect hard falls, and an electrical heart rate sensor that can take an electrocardiogram (ECG) using the new ECG app, which has been granted a De Novo classification by the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration).”
According to Jeff Williams, Apple’s...
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