CLINICAL TRIAL PUTS APPLE WATCH’S HEART MONITORING PROWESS TO THE TEST
ALONG WITH TRACKING A WEARER’S WORKOUT, COMPANY HOPES TO SHOW ITS WATCH CAN EFFECTIVELY DETECT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
Apple Inc. has a long reputation for disrupting the markets with new innovations, and the Silicon Valley tech giant is now skirting the edges of one very traditional field: cardiology.
Heart doctors and traditional medical technology companies appear to be keeping an open mind so far as Apple launches a massive 500,000-person research study to see whether the Apple Watch can detect signs of the potentially serious medical condition called atrial fibrillation. “AFib” is a chaotic, out-of-sync heartbeat that can damage the heart and allow blood clots to
