Apple Researchers Reveal Newest Feature for Medical Purposes

It is not surprising that one of the biggest tech companies in the world today, Apple Inc, is doing everything they can to be able to deliver the most advanced and the most convenient wearable technology there is. In fact, Apple founder Steve Jobs was spending the last few moments of his life trying to work with a team of researchers and look for a way wherein a wearable tech would be able to detect the glucose level of the wearer.

This was based on his experience since he actually despised pricking his finer just to be able to draw blood because he was suffering from diabetes besides the fact that he has cancer at that time. A few years after Jobs passed, his team of researchers is continuing in being able to incorporate their very famous Apple Watch with a noninvasive reader for blood sugar levels.

APPLE WATCH RESEARCH FOR BETTER HEALTH CONVENIENCE

Apple has been doing a lot when it comes to trying to make the Apple Watch reliable when it comes to the health. Unfortunately, there has been a lot of circumstances that the said wearable technology is indeed inaccurate and unreliable at the same time. The company actually announced that the newest update on the new Apple watches would not be needing to be paired up with their iPhones and it will serve as a stand-alone device.

This then made manufacturers tap into the Apple watch’s new features such as its cellular connectivity to be able to use the electrocardiogram that is used to monitor the activity of the heart that will then allow people to manage their condition especially if they are at risk of heart-related diseases. At first, people often wonder why would they actually need the Apple Watch if they could have just the best iPhones in their pocket and it seems just like a strategy for Apple Inc. to earn more money. Turns out that the wearable devices does not exactly work as a mobile device, instead it is a device that would help people monitor their health conditions.

According to the president of the Creative Strategies Tim Bajarin, this current evolution of wearable technology is actually one of the most important steps science has ever taken. Medical monitoring is indeed essential which is why Apple Watches has been dominating its competitors in the market because of what it can actually do for the wearer, it is not just a gadget, it is a gadget that could save your life.

HOW WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY CHANGES THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY

The chief executive of AliveCor Vic Gundotra believes that with wearable technology, the patients will have more information regarding their well-being and that way they when they consult their doctor they would not have to be clueless.

The Apple Watch is known to be an artificial intelligence system and it would then work as a medical accessory and will be able to detect certain things regarding the wearer’s health and it would give them some kind of control over their condition instead of panicking over nothing since they don’t have a clue what is going on before they go to their doctors. AliveCor is a company that makes portable electrocardiograms and Gundotra also believes that it is definitely changing the relationship between patients and their physicians since they will have a better understanding.

In fact, just last month, they introduced the KardiaBand to Apple which is an electrocardiogram which is built-in that would work as some form of a detector for heart activity that could help with letting their wearer aware that their heart activity may not be normal. This has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration and can be used when a thumb is placed into the sensor of the band and it would then take 30 seconds for the device to send it to the patient’s doctor.

However, Cleveland Clinic’s cardiac electrophysiologist Dr. Khaldoun Tarakji believes that these type of devices may cause too much information and it is not always a good thing. He worked with AliveCor and it is a fact that this could definitely be a good thing for people but then there is always such thing as too much. One of the risks is that patients would then rely too much on those devices that they would rather put their trust on it that to their physicians.

What people need to understand is that wearable technology can never be a wearable physician. There is a reason why doctors study for most of their lives, a device can never work as good as a doctor.