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by nostromo 2090 days ago
The study started with 767,338 patients with clinical notes.

Out of that haystack, only 41 referred to an Apple Watch alert about abnormal pulse detection.

And of that 7 were found to have enough concern to further explore potential cardiovascular disease.

So, out of three quarters of a million visits, there were 41 with concerns from an Apple Watch, and 7 people received early treatment they might not have otherwise received (which could potentially save millions of dollars of future healthcare costs).

34 people were false positives and inconvenienced with a doctor's visit.

This seems like a net positive.