Apple’s Watch 3 rolls out heart health and smart fitness features

Today, Apple announced the new Apple Watch 3 will be rolling out several health and fitness features

including smart activity coaching, new features for swimmers, Gym Kit and an enhanced heart rate

monitor.
The Apple Watch 3 will enhance the heart rate app to monitor measurements like resting heart rate,

recovery heart rate as well as a notification for an elevated heart rate when you don’t appear to

be active. The other interesting thing to note is the tracking of heart rhythm. This is particularly

helpful for those with an irregular heart beat or who may not know they have one.

To go along with this new addition, Apple announced the Apple Heart Study to look at irregular heart

rhythms using data from the Apple Watch and in partnership with Stanford medicine.
“A regular heart rhythm has a familiar pattern, but when your heart beats irregularly it’s called

arrhythmia,” explained Apple exec Jeff Williams. “That can cause problems, the most common form is

AFIB, it affects tens of millions of people and is a leading cause of stroke.”
Apple previously teamed up with a startup called Cardiogram to track irregular heart rhythm in

conjunction with the University of California San Francisco. That initial study found the Watch was

able to detect an abnormal heart rhythm with a 97 percent accuracy.
Cook hinted at Apple’s future in health care in an interview on Monday, telling Fortune, some of

what the company is working on would be a profitable endeavor and some of it might not be.
Apple has already included several appetizing features in previous Watch editions for health and

fitness enthusiasts, making it one of the more attractive smartwatches on the market.
With the rollout of OS4, the Watch will now hook up with gym machines using Gym Kit, track heart

health, be swim proof, sweat proof and have the battery life to boot.
The latest updates for OS4, coming September 19, 2017, play into Apple’s forward-looking bet on

becoming a one-stop hub for our healthcare needs.
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