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ECG app and irregular rhythm notification on Apple Watch
- Lukassus 8y agoFingers crossed for Canada to be next.
- 52-6F-62 8y agoI’m with you. I’ve been enjoying the Watch 4 for tracking my workouts and calorie burn heuristics and general heart rate. I’m interested to see the ECG results.
- Lukassus 8y agoIt looks like Apple has still not applied in Canada as of March 2019 https://mobilesyrup.com/2019/03/21/health-canada-apple-apple-watchs-ecg-canada/ https://mobilesyrup.com/2019/03/21/health-canada-apple-apple...
- Daniel_sk 8y agoMissing Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic ... :(
- securityfreak 8y agoSlovakia still doesn’t have Apple Pay, Apple News and no operator supports an eSIM. I honestly don’t understand how this is possible.
- Daniel_sk 8y agoNot entirely true - Orange has just announced eSIM support (http://dsl.sk/article.php?article=22304 http://dsl.sk/article.php?article=22304) and Apple Pay is definitely coming in next months (I have this confirmed from inside banks).
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- iamben 8y agoAre there any fitness trackers that offer this? And whilst on the subject of fitness trackers - are there any that offer great heart monitoring but aren't a whole smart watch thing? I used to love the jawbone design, and I'm currently wearing an Alta HR - but I wear a proper watch. I have a phone to sync to. I want heart and steps and sleep without the bulk or screen.
- abawany 8y agoWithings recently announced a watch with the ECG capability: https://www.withings.com/us/en/move-ecg https://www.withings.com/us/en/move-ecg .
- notoriousjpg 8y agoI'd also like to know this. Is the apple watch better or just better with marketing & PR? The 'my watch told me i had heart issues' all seem to be Apple Watch related.
- saagarjha 8y agoThis might be because Apple Watch is significantly more popular than most heart rate monitors with comparable features.
- MBCook 8y agoI don’t think there ARE any other consumer devices with those features out. It seems someone else has announced one but it’s not out and hasn’t gone through a clinical trial of 400k people.
- notoriousjpg 8y agoI assume by this you mean Fitbits are not comparable as heart rate monitors? Anecdotally I find fitbits are much more widespread than Apple Watches
- tinus_hn 8y agoHeart rate monitor watches are a dime a dozen but watches that can do ECGs or even analyze your heart rate are pretty rare.
- taspeotis 8y agoLooking forward to it arriving in Australia soon!
- pdimitar 8y agoNot understanding the limited geographic rollout of this feature. Can somebody explain why is this done in such a way?
- 781 8y ago> With over 400,000 participants, the Apple Heart Study was the largest screening study on atrial fibrillation ever conducted, and one of the largest cardiovascular trials to date. Were the users aware that they were participating in a medical study? Or was this burried in the EULA.
- Lukassus 8y agoThey were very open about the study and it needed a separate app to be installed https://med.stanford.edu/appleheartstudy.html https://med.stanford.edu/appleheartstudy.html
- saagarjha 8y agoYes: it was opt-in and conducted in conjunction with Stanford. You had to download the app and enroll: https://med.stanford.edu/appleheartstudy.html https://med.stanford.edu/appleheartstudy.html
- caprese 8y agoVery cool Most health survey apps I'd seen over the last decade had the worst designs and glitchy user experience, it was clear the app itself was a total after thought while fawning over the possibilities of the technology, likely a testament to cash-strapped reseachers Apple's privilege being put to good use here
- lavezzi 8y agoThis was a lot faster than expected wasn't it?
- soneil 8y agoI really wasn't expecting Ireland to be on the list this soon. I mean, we're still waiting for "visual voicemail" ..
- yipeedipee 8y agoThats more a network limitation, the networks have to buy in the kit to do it and they dont bother. I think only o2 and possibly EE do it in the UK.
- jw1224 8y agoAnother iOS thing the rest of the world is still missing is Voicemail Transcription. Been out for nearly 3 years, yet remains USA-only to this day.
- philjohn 8y agoI'm on Three in the UK and no visual voicemail, but subscribe instead fo HulloMail which does voicemail transcription and is a very low monthly/yearly cost. Would still rather my network provided it though, but it's been 10 years now and Three still haven't updated their systems, so I doubt they ever will.
- VectorLock 8y agoI'd really like to get one of these for my Mom but getting her to use an iPhone would probably be a bridge too far.
- dmead 8y agohttps://www.alivecor.com/ https://www.alivecor.com/
- VectorLock 8y agoShe has one of these and it works amazingly well. The reason the Apple Watch is interesting is because it offers this and fall detection.
- deca6cda37d0 8y agoAustria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, US and US Virgin Islands.
- Unklejoe 8y agoOn a somewhat related note: The Apple Watch gave me a false positive for atrial fibrillation. I was having premature ventricular contractions (PVCs), which are _generally_ benign as long as your heart has no structural abnormalities. Basically, your left ventricle contracts spontaneously on its own in beteeen regular beats, which throws off the timing of the next beat. The end result is an irregular heart beat, similar to that of atrial fibrillation, but can be easily distinguished by human inspection of the EKG. Needless to say, the result scared the crap out of me. I made an appointment at the cardiologist the next day, and I couldn’t sleep until I was finally able to see him. The stress from this actually made the PVCs more frequent... The cardiologist took one look at the EKG strip from the watch and was able to identify the abnormalities as PVCs rather than afib. He still had me wear a holter monitor for 48 hours though. It turns out I had over 38,000 PVCs in two days, which is a large enough amount to cause concern about the risk of cardiomyopathy (“they” say under 10,000 per day is okay as long as they’re not bothering you). So, at the end of the day, I’m glad I got the alert. I probably wouldn’t have gone to the doctor if not. I do hope they improve the classification though so that it can distinguish between afib and PVCs.
- dmead 8y agoThe classifier can't get better with only one or two contacts.
- brlewis 8y ago"The cardiologist took one look at the EKG strip from the watch and was able to identify the abnormalities as PVCs rather than afib" Sounds like the data is there.
- pragone 8y agoDetermining PVCs vs afib is very trivial when you actually look at the strip. However, if Apple is only analyzing rate regularity and not actually doing analysis on the waveforms themselves they would be very difficult to differentiate. If you're having so many PVCs that the watch thinks you're in afib, you should probably still see a doctor. As the grandparent noted, tens of thousands of PVCs in a couple day period is very unusual and should probably be seen by a specialist.
- caprese 8y agoI bought a premium series 4 last week because of this ECG talk Tried to see if my carrier t-mobile had the same 24 month payment plan, but not for this specific model and combination and I wanted it now Imagined the idea of trying to get approved for my tax-free health account, but then realized I'm already paying for my whole healthcare plan by myself instead of an employer, so it would be redundant even if I could get the doctor plus tax authority to agree briefly looked at all the cheaper alternatives to Apple Watch Series 4 GPS+Cellular Aluminum body, metal wristband. Quickly dismissed them. so I just made the big consumptive purchase because my health is more important :) love the device
- tzs 8y agoIf by tax-free health account that you pay for yourself you mean an HSA plan, then if you could putting it on that would be a net win because you'd be paying with pre-tax dollars. It would effectively be a discount equal to your marginal federal tax rate. Unfortunately, as far as I've been able to find you cannot put one on an HSA yet, but many people seem to think the IRS will eventually allow it.
- stevefan1999 8y agoAww, Watch 4; I still love my Watch 2 though, any alternative app to replace it?
- dharma1 8y agoMy dad has aFib... should I get him this or Kardia?