In how many countries have you received approval for medical devices? You seem to be an expert.
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Changing Your Apple Watch or iPhone's Region Won't Enable ECG App Outside of United States
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In how many countries have you received approval for medical devices? You seem to be an expert.
It would not be difficult for the update software to ‘phone home’ and find out where your equipment was purchased before loading parts of the software.
Exactly. If it took so long to roll out Apple Pay then it will take just as long or much longer to rollout ECG because of the required approval for a medical device. That was my point. That's why I said I don't expect ECG to roll out of the US any faster than Apple Pay did, and perhaps it will be even much slower. In most countries, obtaining government approval will likely take much longer than reaching an agreement with banks.
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All they have to check is the serial or model number. In those numbers, Apple does include identifiers for the different regions where they sell devices and that's what they seem to be using to enable or disable ECG on the Apple Watch.
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It makes perfect sense. Apple breaks the law in other countries if customers buy unapproved medical devices. Just because you've brought your watch from another country doesn't make it legal for Apple to have sold it in that country.
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Because the ECG isn't a big enough sway that it would significantly dissuade customers from buying the watch.
None, but im not selling devices and im sure Apple has all the resources they need to do that with their expert. Nect time when you try to look smart, try better.
From a trillion $ Company? Naaah. Its more likely the clearence from individual countries that’s the bottleneck.
one said above, apple hasn't even left an application in Canada, so how can it be a bottleneck from Canada part? I just sent a message to our authority to ask if apple has left an application at all.
Really one of the reasons i bought series 4 was ECG , i bought it when come out and i live in Europe, and what now i am screw it without ECG like other parts of the world except USA for indefinitely time... 
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So my county is in EU Union , my question is: Is the Apple must be approved from EU Union or from each country separately.
If is the case of separately approval i am really screwed.... i never get the ECG...
#FeelsbadmanSo my county is in EU Union , my question is: Is the Apple must be approved from EU Union or from each country separately.
If is the case of separately approval i am really screwed.... i never get the ECG...
Really one of the reasons i bought series 4 was ECG , i bought it when come out and i live in Europe, and what now i am screw it without ECG like other parts of the world except USA for indefinitely time...
So my county is in EU Union , my question is: Is the Apple must be approved from EU Union or from each country separately.
If is the case of separately approval i am really screwed.... i never get the ECG...
European Medicines Agency (EMA) is the counterpart of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
"FDA .and EMA collaborate through “clusters” to share safety information... EMA is perceived as being less strict than the FDA in its approval process... EMA does not approve all drugs that are used in EU countries; individual countries may choose to approve drugs that the EMA has not approved."
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/european-medicines-agency-ema.asp
"The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is responsible for the scientific evaluation of centralised marketing authorisation applications (MAA). Once granted by the European Commission, the centralised marketing authorisation is valid in all European Union (EU) Member States, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein."
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/marketing-authorisation
I think that because the FDA shares information with the EMA, it will be sooner in Europe than some other parts of the world.
Really one of the reasons i bought series 4 was ECG , i bought it when come out and i live in Europe, and what now i am screw it without ECG like other parts of the world except USA for indefinitely time...
So my county is in EU Union , my question is: Is the Apple must be approved from EU Union or from each country separately.
If is the case of separately approval i am really screwed.... i never get the ECG...
Like I said before, government approval takes longer than agreement with private entities such as banks. If it took Apple two years to start rolling out Apple Pay to EU countries, it will take them even longer to roll out ECG. Don't expect to see it there before 2021. After previous feature rollout experiences, apple should have known better and should have waited to release ECG in the US until they had approval requests submitted in a few other countries. That way people abroad wouldn't have to wait as long as they will have to after the US release to get the feature.
If Apple followed your suggestion and waited to release the ECG in the US, more people would be at risk of suffering from undiagnosed atrial fibrillation.
There are already reports of the feature "saving" people in the US, so I think Apple made the right choice.
I bought my iPhone and Apple Watch in Dallas, TX. For the winter months I spend it in the Dominican Republic. With the update, I am able to use the ECG feature here. I have used in the last 3 days. I get more inconclusive results than a Sinus Rhythm but it works. My Friend has a Watch from the US but a phone bought in the DR and it doesn’t work for them. Hope this provides some insight for you.
No they didn’t. The only right choice, being a health feature and knowing government approval takes time, was for apple to have put in approval requests in other countries AT THE SAME TIME WHEN THEY SUBMITTED THEIR REQUEST FOR APPROVAL FROM THE FDA IN THE US. That way approval in other countries could have been obtained sooner after the US release if not even at the same time in some places. Instead, Apple only requested FDA approval in the US and didn’t even bother to try anywhere else, and still hasn’t. Now millions of people around the world are still going to be at risk of suffering undiagnosed atrial fibrillation for at least another two years because Apple didn’t bother to request approval from the health entities in their countries earlier.
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No one is at any more risk than thery were before last Thursday. There are plenty of devices which supply the same function, many of them if not most cheaper than the Apple Watch.
Devices that get sold internationally get categorized.
You'd be surprised at what seemingly harmless categories might spark their interest.
Still, Apple should have applied for approval in more countries at the same time as they did in the US. Not doing that when they knew it would take time was absolutely stupid.
How many medical devices have you received clearance to sell around the world?
Apple cares first and foremost about the US first. They have always been US first, the rest later. Don’t buy into their narrative that they care about the world. If that were the case, they would have stronger initiatives at targeting less wealthy countries
Luckily i got a friend of mine to get my series 3 from the usa when he was on holiday and bring it back to me in the uk. So i should have ecg now!
It needs to be the series 4 though, because ECG requires specific hardware that only the series 4 has. I hope the 3 is just a typo on your post, otherwise you still don’t get ECG.
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Perhaps one of your other personalities wrote the post quoted above. Better check...