Re:The Apple Watch heart monitor sends too many people to th...
by nostromo on Friday October 02, 2020 @03:18PM
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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.
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.