“In the last months of Steve Jobs’s life, the Apple co-founder fought cancer while managing diabetes,” Daisuke Wakabayashi reports for The New York Times. “Because he hated pricking his finger to draw blood, Mr. Jobs authorized an Apple research team to develop a noninvasive glucose reader with technology that could potentially be incorporated into a wristwatch, according to people familiar with the events.”
“It was one of many medical applications that Apple considered for the Apple Watch, which debuted in 2015. Yet because many of the health features proved unreliable or required too many compromises in the watch’s size or battery life, Apple ended up positioning the device for activity tracking and notifications instead,” Wakabayashi reports. “Now, the Apple Watch is finding a medical purpose after all.”
“In September, Apple announced that the Apple Watch would no longer need to be tethered to a smartphone and would become more of a stand-alone device,” Wakabayashi reports. “Since then, a wave of device manufacturers have tapped into the watch’s new features like cellular connectivity to develop medical accessories — such as an electrocardiogram for monitoring heart activity — so people can manage chronic conditions straight from their wrist.
What’s happening with the Apple Watch is one of the first signs of a leap forward in the utility of wearable devices”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) is a significant leap forward, even over Apple Watch Series 2.
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Oh, joy! Apple Watch will herald a new millennium of happiness, bliss, and healthfulness. Can you feel it?
Sod off, you pathetic little troll.
What? Apple Watch isn’t the greatest health care innovation since refrigeration and vaccines? Seriously? Please explain.
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troll like you suck dicks – ha ha
After buying WATCH Series 3 (GPS+Cell) a month ago because the Apple Stanford Heart Study wouldn’t allow me to be a part of it with my Original Series 0, I’m still waiting to be admitted to the Study after applying the day I got the new WATCH.😟
My mom qualifies for the Stanford Heart Study, and she only got the invite recently.
My most favorite Apple product !.
Then iphone x..
What an iconoclast Steve Jobs was.
“A natural born world shaker.” – Dragline, 1967
botvirnnik you’re not well liked but I bet you’re used to it! ha ha – go whack yourself troll!
being called an iconoclast is a high compliment, you obtuse little puke.
But he did not call u an iconoclast.
He called u “not well liked”.
People don’t realize how fast companies are getting FDA clearance for digital applications. 51 health connected devices were FDA cleared in 2017.
http://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/fifty-one-connected-health-products-fda-cleared-2017
Stop the in-app pop-up ads, MDN. We don’t need BS $1000 gift card scams.
Apple’s example with AliveCor is that they continue to undercut and cannibalize their developers and partners. This company had done great work on EKGs with iOS and Apple seems to be targeting them to be Sherlocked (Karelia Software).
Diabetes is eating the developed world alive and anything that can help manage it better will have profound impact and could be very profitable. The rates of Diabetes in the developed world are stunning and on a steady march upward.
What is needed more is prevention of the condition in the first place. The cost annually in the US is well over $300 Billion and rising.
Not mentioned here is that Mr Jobs Diabetes was caused by his Whipple Procedure necessitated by his Pancreatic Cancer.