Apple Watch can detect arrhythmia with 97% accuracy, study says
With due respect to the Cardiogram developers (hi guys) as a doctor I really can't see a huge amount of value in this - my patients who present to emergency departments with paroxysmal AF are all anticoagulanted or on rate control and there has only been one instance in the last 3 years and many thousand patients when someone has presented to emergency and we have had to run through the full spectrum of echo -> anticoagulante -> cardiovert.To the founders: what do you see as being he end game here? Are you just looking for validation (of the concept in itself, not the app- I use it on my watch)? Is the US market so different that this is particularly useful and cost effective for detection? Do you see this as eventually displaying early warning in the instance of an early warning?Thanks and I don't mean to denegrate your efforts, but I do see lots of Consumer Med tech as solving a problem that really isn't creating value (i.e. Proliferation of devices,wearables and algorithms that proclaim the ability to help with X but are really marginally helpful at best) and I'm wondering if I'm missing something about the actual medical benefit, or whether what I feel like is true- that they aren't after being a medical device at all but instead are chasing the consumer dollars by making medical claims