If you look back in the future, then ask a question: “What is Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind?” I would say that it is healthy.
Apple CEO Tim Cook expressed the importance of health to the company in a statement this year.
Many Apple executives Accepted by Independent News, once again talked about why health monitoring is at the heart of Apple Watch.
Apple’s first Apple watch has a heart rate monitor.
At that time, Apple only hoped that it would provide more accurate health data than the competitor’s fitness monitor, but then Apple received the first user letter and the situation changed.
The letter tells us that people saved their lives just by heart rate monitoring. Surprisingly, there are more and more such letters.
We realize that we have an obligation and a greater responsibility to do more things for it.
Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams said. Therefore, Apple also introduced medical supervision applications and so on, so that people can pay more attention to their health while watching time, sending messages, and making phone calls.
In 2015, Apple released ResearchKit, a software infrastructure for medical researchers, enabling application developers to develop code libraries for healthy applications on the iPhone and Apple Watch.
Afterwards, Apple has begun to have more connections with the medical community, and apps for asthma, heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, and Parkinson have been created.
For consumers and scientists, the study of health data is a good thing. Jeff Williams said:
We are not just investing in technology. In fact, we are also working hard to conduct scientific research with scholars. The medical industry, especially researchers, has also found that this is a great opportunity for them to truly understand more people’s true health information. Users are also able to sense physical changes earlier and be more proactive in preventing health problems.
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When the Apple Watch Series 4 was released last year, the ECG monitoring function was introduced, which is equivalent to integrating the items made in the hospital into a watch. When the watch detects the arrhythmia of the user’s suspected atrial fibrillation, it will be immediately Send a reminder to the user.
Although the hospital does not fully recognize its data, its monitoring is not comprehensive enough, but it also brings people closer to personal health monitoring.
A foreign netizen said last year that Apple Watch detected his heart atrial fibrillation problem and asked him to go to the hospital for emergency medical care in time, and the result was confirmed.
