Monday, 15 May 2017

Apple Watch detects heart irregularity with 97 percent accuracy

An Apple Watch app can detect a common form of heart irregularity with 97 percent accuracy, according to results presented at the Heart Rhythm Society last week. This is promising because people with the heart condition — called atrial fibrillation — often have no symptoms, making screening and diagnosis difficult.

Cardiogram — a heart rate monitoring app used with the Apple Watch — worked with the University of California, San Francisco on its Health eHeart Study. From March 2016 to about February of this year, Cardiogram recruited over 6,000 participants. Though most participants had normal readings, about 200 had already been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, or afib. Cardiogram engineers then used this data to train an algorithm...

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https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/15/15640942/apple-watch-cardiogram-heart-health-artificial-intelligence-monitoring

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http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/05/apple-watch-detects-heart-irregularity.html

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