Is Apple Going Into Healthcare...

“I do think there will be a day when people looking back will say Apple’s greatest contribution to the world was healthcare.” This quote might catch some people off guard right now; after all, the company with the iconic logo is best known for its consumer techs like iPhones and Macs. But the quote comes from the company’s own CEO, Tim Cook, talking about Apple’s healthcare plans during the Time 100 Summit in 2019.

  The Apple Heart Study

More than 800 years ago, Maimonides described an irregular pulse that likely represented atrial fibrillation (AF). The development of the electrocardiogram by Einthoven 700 years later allowed surface recordings of human AF for the first time.1 With the recognition that AF is often asymptomatic and paroxysmal, the development of inexpensive, non-invasive, passive monitors for irregular rhythm identification has long been recognized as a potentially important tool for arrhythmia detection and management.

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Perhaps because of the sheer breadth of Apple's ambitions, it can be tough to pin down exactly what Apple wants to do in the health care space. To help, we've distilled all the confusing and sometimes-contradictory reporting into the five concrete ways Apple is seeking to transform the health care industry.

Apple and Amazon’s moves in health signal a coming transformation

The world’s biggest tech firms see an opportunity in health care, which could mean empowered patients, better diagnosis of disease and lower costs.

Apple is launching its own health care service for employees

The setup suggests that US companies are growing as impatient as their employees with the state of American health care—and that better medical benefits will perhaps be the next great battleground in the war for talent.

Apple still has a lot of room to grow in the $3.5 trillion health care sector

Imagine if the company could somehow build a body of clinical evidence to get into the business of taking on risk for a population. If it can truly prove that it could improve the quality of care and bring down costs, that would be a huge opportunity. That vision would take many years to achieve, but it would certainly meet Cook’s goal of having a major impact on health care.

Apple's Heart Study Is the Biggest Ever, But With a Catch

Now, not for the first time, Apple's attention to user experience has been rewarded: According to a paper outlining the study's design in this week's issue of the American Heart Journal, Apple and Stanford have managed to enroll a staggering 419,093 participants. That makes it the largest screening study on atrial fibrillation ever performed.

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Johnson & Johnson to Use Apple Watch App for Heart-Health Study

Aim is to detect the irregular heart rhythms of people living with atrial fibrillation before something life-threatening happens.

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Doctors can also use the monitors to diagnose patients with intermittent episodes of a-fib, which are hard to catch, and follow up on patients who have had ablations, a procedure that removes diseased tissue from the heart to try to stop a-fib symptoms.