According to a study conducted through heartbeat measurement app Cardiogram and the University of California, San Francisco, the Apple Watch is 97 percent accurate in detecting the most common abnormal heart rhythm when paired with an AI-based algorithm.
The study involved 6,158 participants recruited through the Cardiogram app on Apple Watch. Most of the participants in the UCSF Health eHeart study had normal EKG readings. However, 200 of them had been diagnosed with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (an abnormal heartbeat). Engineers then trained a deep neural network to identify these abnormal heart rhythms from Apple Watch heart rate data.
Cardiogram began the study with UCSF in 2016 to discover whether the Apple Watch could detect an oncoming stroke. About a quarter of strokes are caused by an abnormal heart rhythm, according to Cardiogram co-founder and data scientist for UCSF's eHeart study Brandon Ballinger.
Yes, but can the Apple Watch then pace you or shock you?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 14 2017, @04:14PM
OMG! Conflobulitus! I was bitten by mosquitos in Africa!
Seriously, thanks for the answer. You've put things into perspective, pretty nicely.
I'll add that "think of the children" plays in there somewhere. Risks that I was quite happy to take, for myself, look entirely different if it's the kids who are at risk. Or, today, risks that are acceptable even for my kids, are not acceptable for the grandchildren. Funny how perspective changes, with time.