Apple's study with Eli Lilly is just one of the many partnerships the tech giant is using to see if its devices can effectively offer actionable data to users and care teams:
have embarked on studies designed in part to test the effectiveness of the Apple Watch as a tool for medical research. And following the release of the Apple Watch 4 earlier this year, we may see more research groups take an interest in the platform as a research tool: The Apple Watch 4 boasts several new, including an electrocardiogram and passive fall detection, in addition to the atrial fibrillation detection offered by earlier iterations of the device.
But results have been a mixed bag on whether Apple's devices can effectively offer up actionable data to users and their care teams. For instance, the results of Stanford's aFib study indicated that while the device was able to notify patients if AFib was detected — most of the timeOf the 400,000 participants who took part in the study, the Apple Watch notified 2,000 about irregular heart rhythms.
No external studies have been conducted to confirm the accuracy of the EKG built in to the Apple Watch 4. However, the flood of consumer health data brought on by consumer wearables could prove if physicians find themselves fielding a large number of false-positives for serious health issues like AFib and dementia.We're likely to see Apple more aggressively seek out health research partnerships as it looks to position its products more firmly as healthcare devices.
In an interview with CNBC earlier this year, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that healthcare will be the company's
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