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by torsday 4057 days ago
This is why I'm excited about the development of the Apple watch and similar ubiquitous metrics. From the heart rate alone you could determine many significant cardiac events, e.g. A-fib, PSVT, heart blocks...
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Yeah -- pervasive monitoring gives you three awesome things:

1) Per-user baselines (e.g. my natural temperature is 36C) in a non-clinical environment (to avoid "white coat" syndrome; from working in a hospital, my BP spikes to 140/90 when I'm around incompetent providers, and is 120/80 normally)

2) Great longitudinal measurements to see changes over time

3) Detecting emergencies instantly

Unfortunately the FDA is very reluctant to allow use of features like that. E.g. the watch already has the hardware to be a pulse oximeter, but that's not one of the advertised features.