CNBC March 18, 2019
Christina Farr

KEY POINTS
  • Apple and Stanford teamed up on a study to determine whether wearable technology can identify irregular heart rhythms that indicate a condition, known as atrial fibrillation.
  • More than 400,000 with Apple Watches participated in the study.
  • They talked about the results at the American College of Cardiology conference in New Orleans.
Apple and researchers from Stanford Medicine released some new results from an eight-month study of more than 400,000 participants, who had access to Apple Watches to monitor their heart rhythm for signs of a medical condition known as atrial fibrillation. The watches are not the newest...

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Topics: Apps, Digital Health, Health System / Hospital, mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Technology, Trends, Wearables
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