Over 400,000 people have enrolled in a study being conducted by researchers at Stanford and Apple to determine whether a wearable technology can identify irregular heart rhythms suggestive of atrial fibrillation…
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Why the Apple Watch won’t replace your doctor anytime soon
Apple is moving ahead with a plan to screen for disease with its Apple Watch…
Apple Heart Study could turn Apple Watch into a ‘must have’ for millions of patients
Apple is working with partners to test whether its smartwatch can be used to detect common heart conditions…
Apple’s health and fitness push picks up steam as it turns 3
In what was one of the most packed WWDC keynotes in recent memory…
Back to the iPhone future: Lessons from a decade of Apple influence in medicine
In early 2008 — on the brink of the second generation iPhone’s release — emergency medicine doctor Michael Omori…
Key Stanford researcher joins Apple’s digital healthcare talent pool
Apple Inc. is hiring Stanford’s digital health leader, Dr. Sumbul Desai…
Apple hires Dr. Sumbul Desai, star of Stanford’s digital health efforts
Apple has quietly scooped up Dr. Sumbul Desai, the executive director of Stanford Medicine’s…
How wearables knew this researcher was sick long before he did
Stanford geneticist Michael Snyder’s research into wearable biosensors has turned into a case study demonstrating…
ResearchKit: The inside story of how Apple’s revolutionary medical research platform was born
On September 27, 2013, during a dimly-lit presentation…
