>Once doctors start prescribing Apple Watches I wouldn't hold my breath on that, for a few reasons: - The sensors likely aren't good enough yet - To be presc

>Once doctors start prescribing Apple Watches I wouldn't hold my breath on that, for a few reasons: - The sensors likely aren't good enough yet - To be prescribed and paid for by insurance cos and medicare, it would need to be an FDA approved device, an onerous and years(maybe decade) long process that I doubt apple would want to go through. You can't have an FDA approved device that you constantly update for example - There is no evidence that this kind constant vital stats recording is medically useful. You'd think it would be, but the literature suggests otherwise So, there are a ton of hurdles for medical use. They would need to establish the utility with a years long peer reviewed study, get FDA approval, convince payers to cover it, convince doctors to prescribe it, and brand it as a health device. I'm not convinced that this is feasible.