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The devices currently used to pump blood around the body in lieu of a healthy heart have their drawbacks. With this in mind, scientists have now developed a silicone heart that beats much like the real thing, something that could provide a safer and more comfortable way to keep the blood pumping.
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The company is partnering up with a group of clinicians at Stanford, as well as telemedicine vendor American Well, to test whether Apple Watch's heart rate sensor can detect abnormal heart rhythms in a cohort of patients, according to two people familiar.
Apple's Tim Cook hinted at the company's interest in heart health applications in an interview with Fortune published on Monday.
"We started working on the Apple Watch several years ago," he said, and one goal was "performing some measurements of your health that people were not measuring, at least continually. Like your heart. Very few people wore heart monitors. We're extremely interested in this area. And yes it is a business opportunity."
Cook went on to describe the medical health activity market as the "largest or second largest component" of the economy.
In June, CNBC reported that Apple hired Sumbul Desai, a rising star on Stanford's digital health team who was working on projects related to Apple Watch. CNBC also reported that month that Apple has been in talks with developers, hospitals and other industry groups about bringing clinical data, such as detailed lab results and allergy lists, to its devices.
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In May 2017, Cardiogram (cardiogr.am) and the UCSF Health eHeart Study (health-eheartstudy.org) released results showing DeepHeart, a deep neural network, can detect atrial fibrillation with 97% accuracy, using Apple Watch's heart rate sensor. DeepHeart was first trained on data from 6,158 Apple Watch owners—139 million heart rate measurements and 6,338 mobile ECGs—to identify atrial fibrillation using Apple Watch's optical heart rate sensor. DeepHeart was then tested on a separate group of 51 UCSF patients undergoing cardioversion, a heart procedure, and showed a c-statistic of 0.97 at distinguished atrial fibrillation from normal heart rhythm. |
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Big Silicon Valley companies have often competed for talent with specialized skills, like expertise in artificial intelligence or trendy new programming languages.
Now they're competing for heart doctors.
Apple, Alphabet, and Amazon have all hired well-known cardiologists.
This might just be a coincidence. Cardiologists tend to be well educated and hard working, and big tech companies have a track record of recruiting such people.
In recent years, all of these companies have started to invest in products and devices that are targeted to millions of people who could benefit by tracking their heart health.
Apple's smartwatch now includes an electrocardiogram, which can detect heart rhythm irregularities. Verily's study watch, which is designed for clinical trial research, also tracks heart rate and heart rhythm, and it's doing a lot of work in chronic disease management.
So the more likely explanation is that tech companies are interested in health care, and they have all come to the conclusion that cardiology should be an early (if not initial) target.
Here's why.
It's a huge potential marketHeart disease is the No. 1 killer in the world, and strokes are among the leading causes of death.
And that's not all that cardiologists treat. "Our scope covers other common disease such as high blood pressure, which impacts about a third of people in the U.S. — 75 million Americans — as well as lipid and cholesterol disorders," said Dr. Mo Elshazly, a cardiologist and assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Many cardiologists are also experts in nutrition and exercise science, which impacts a huge number of people who are committed to staying healthy.
That's useful for the teams within the largest tech companies that are more focused on wellness and fitness applications, rather than on health and medical.
Alphabet has Google Fit. Apple has a fitness group for its Apple Watch. And Amazon is looking at health and wellness applications for its Alexa voice assistant. It's well-studiedCardiology is among the most-studied fields in medicine, meaning there's already a lot of evidence to understand the root causes of heart disease, as well as how to prevent it. That's attractive for tech companies, which tend to base their development decisions on data. Their consumer products are already making a differenceLet's take Apple, as an example. The company launched its first Apple Watch model with a heart rate sensor, never expecting that people would use it to discover they were pregnant, at risk for a heart attack or experiencing a dangerous irregular heart rhythm. But as people began sharing examples of how the Apple Watch saved their life, the company started to invest heavily in the science and technology to drive more of these stories. A lot of that work culminated in the first-ever clearance for a heart rhythm sensor called an ECG for Apple Watch earlier in the summer.
read more at https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/17/what-every-tech-company-needs-a-cardiologist.html
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Since 2009, at least 940 clinical trials using smartphones, watches or other mobile devices have been registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, a database run by the National Institutes of Health. About 290 of these were registered so far this year. Researchers are deploying the technologies to detect epileptic seizures, prevent cardiovascular disease and help U.S. combat veterans adjust to civilian life.
Researchers say the digital tools can make participating in medical studies more convenient for healthy volunteers and patients, helping to enroll them more quickly than in many conventional clinical trials. And built-in features such as heart-rate monitors and accelerometers can record data more accurately than study participants relying on recollection or making entries into log books, they say.
But researchers also see limitations, including high dropout rates by participants, as well as patient demographics that don’t always represent the broader population—partly because of the high cost of some devices. The Apple Watch costs between $249 and $399.
Concerns also have emerged about the privacy of participants’ health data because many of the devices and apps involve third-party vendors, said Charlene Wong, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Duke University School of Medicine who has studied the use of technology in pediatric health care.
Apple will face those challenges firsthand with the study of the app’s ability to detect irregular heartbeats—a condition known as atrial fibrillation that often goes unnoticed and can lead to strokes. Anyone 22 and older with an Apple Watch will be able to participate and choose to wirelessly share their heart data with Apple and researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Bravo à toute l'équipe de IZYCARDIO et de CARDIOPARC!
C'est déjà une belle reconnaissance du chemin parcouru par notre projet. Mention spéciale pour Matis THIEBAUD pour l'excellente vidéo de présentation du projet https://vimeo.com/361902162