Becker's Healthcare August 22, 2018
The Apple Watch, Fitbit and Google’s new Fit app are among leading tech companies that have the potential to create significant clinical benefits, writes Jeffrey Wessler, MD, cardiology fellow at New York City-based Columbia University Medical Center and founder of the preventive cardiology company Heartbeat Health, in an op-ed for CNBC.
To do so, though, these companies must start small, he argues.
Dr. Wessler equates the companies’ current position to the first randomized trial of aspirin as a heart attack preventive. In the early 1970s in the U.K., about 1,239 men took the pill after have a heart attack for the first trial. Today, more than 40 million Americans take aspirin each day, and the number of heart attacks have...
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