iWatch?

[MacMad6]

Interesting interview in a cardiology journal. Does this professor know Apple secrets or is he just guessing? Going for medical monitoring could be a huge market, incredibly innovative, and require intricate hardware and software integration that is Apple's strength:

'Dr. Hans-Christoph Diener, ESC spokesperson, predicted in an interview that physicians can soon expect to see a huge influx of patients with newly discovered silent AF. The impetus will be the much-anticipated introduction of the Apple iWatch, which he said could happen later this year.

"The detection of silent atrial fibrillation is going to change very quickly. This watch will have a device in it which measures pulse, and it has software which detects atrial fibrillation. More features are available for people with various diseases: It can measure oxygen saturation, pulse, blood pressure. They’ve even developed a chip to measure glucose transdermally. It’s amazing," said Dr. Diener, professor and chair of the department of neurology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.'

http://www.ecardiologynews.com/news/arrhythmias-electrophysiology/single-article/undetected-silent-af-is-present-in-3-of-75-year-olds/820f35f85bb88c919934484daab25f77.html?tx_ttnews%5BsViewPointer%5D=1

 

[pdjudd]

He’s predicting. That means he knows nothing more than Gene Munster does about the mythical Apple Television. He’s also just repeating an existing rumor and adding his own twist to it.