This start-up has stumbled across an incredibly popular use for the Apple Watch

CNBC ^ | May 12, 2017 | By Christina Farr

[Swordmaker]

• The app, called Cardiogram, said it has 100,000 daily active users and a 73% open rate
• The app can also be used to screen for heart rhythm abnormalities
• This is the latest in a series of studies that are exploring how artificial intelligence can root out abnormalities in medical data

The Apple Watch is proving itself to be a useful tool for monitoring serious medical conditions, and not just for fitness.

A mobile health app made by start-up Cardiogram, backed by Silicon Valley venture firms including Andreessen Horowitz, has proven to be shockingly popular among the people who download it, the company's co-founder Brandon Ballinger told CNBC. Although only 250,000 people have downloaded it to try it, more than 100,000 people use it every day. Of the people who kept the app, more than 73% open it every single day.

Cardiogram uses the Apple Watch's built-in heart sensor to give you advice about heart health -- for instance, showing when you're unusually stressed out by checking your heart rate.

The company is also doing original research, and on Thursday it unveiled the results of a study on Thursday showing how the Apple Watch can be used to detect abnormal heart rhythms.

[Red Badger]

Doing for literally pennies what usually takes thousands of dollars in bulky, cumbersome equipment to do.................

[Swordmaker]

A new AppleWatch app Is accurate 97% of the time using the smartwatch’s heart rate sensor, compared to screening tests performed at the hospital in finding heart problems. Cardiogram App for AppleWatch is being used for original research as well. — PING!

AppleWatch Heart Health App 97% Accurate!
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[Calvin Locke]

Oh sure, until it gets hacked.

Then it's:

Jim Lovell: [Tearing off his biomeds] Let's see how he likes this. I am sick and tired of the entire western world knowing how my kidneys are functioning!

[montag813]

Too bad watch HR monitors are horribly inaccurate

[BunnySlippers]

Apple is second only to Rolex in sale of watches!

http://wornandwound.com/apple-second-rolex-worldwide-sales-mean/

[Grampa Dave]

"sure, until it gets hacked."

We could make the snowflake generation afraid to get out of their beds in their parents basements.

A little hacking and the snowflakes could be warned not leave their bed, not to eat, not to sleep and that Trump is coming after them. They need to stay in their safe place and never come out.

A special good night to SnowFlakes across America. Sleep well! President Trump will be there, watching over you!

[Grampa Dave]

A-HED
Help! My Fancy New Car Won’t Stop Beeping
Touchy touch screens, buggy software and mystery sounds baffle drivers, forcing some to enroll in two-hour tech seminars; ‘then the beeping started’
By Christina Rogers
May 11, 2017

Jonna Miller, a Houston obstetrician, has delivered babies for 17 years, some births trickier than others. But getting from point A to point B using BMW’s navigation system, she said, is too complicated to bother with.

So she turned off her electronics in her new BMer.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/help-my-fancy-new-car-wont-stop-beeping-1494427120

[corkoman]

Soon enough The FDA will be asking some questions. game Over.

[newfreep]

A well designed chest strap monitor is VERY accurate - i.e. Polar H7

[aquila48]

“shockingly popular”

Can you be any more shockingly hyperbolic?? What a pile!

[Swordmaker]

Can you be any more shockingly hyperbolic??

Well only if they start including a cardiac defibrillator in the AppleWatch design. Now that would be shocking. GRIN.