Apple Watch's New High Blood Pressure Notifications Developed With AI (msn.com)
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- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/0119208/apple-watchs-new-high-blood-pressure-notifications-developed-with-ai
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/apple-used-ai-to-uncover-new-blood-pressure-notification-feature-in-watch/ar-AA1MUXfj
> Apple used AI to sort through the data from 100,000 people enrolled in a heart and movement study it originally launched in 2019 to see whether it could find features in the signal data from the watch's main heart-related sensor that it could then match up with traditional blood pressure measurements, said Sumbul Ahmad Desai [Apple's vice president of health]. After multiple layers of machine learning, Apple came up with an algorithm that it then validated with a specific study of 2,000 participants.
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> Apple's privacy measures mean that "one of the ironies here is we don't get a lot of data" outside of the context of large-scale studies, Desai said. But data from those studies "gives us a sense of, scientifically, what are some other signals that are worth pulling the thread on ... those studies are incredibly powerful."
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> The feature, which received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, does not measure blood pressure directly, but notifies users that they may have high blood pressure and encourages them to use a cuff to measure it and talk to a doctor. Apple plans to roll out the feature to more than 150 countries, which Ami Bhatt, chief innovation officer of the American College of Cardiology, said could help people discover high blood pressure early and reduce related conditions such as heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease. Bhatt, who said her views are her own and do not represent those of the college, said Apple appears to have been careful to avoid false positives that might alarm users. But she said the iPhone maker should emphasize that the new feature is no substitute for traditional measurements and professional diagnosis.
The article notes that the feature will be available in Apple Watch Series 11 models that go on sale on Friday, as well as models back to the Apple Watch Series 9.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/apple-used-ai-to-uncover-new-blood-pressure-notification-feature-in-watch/ar-AA1MUXfj
I have BAD White Coat Syndrome... (Score:2)
I have really bad White Coat Syndrome. When I go to the doctor's office my blood pressure is always very high, as in they always freak out.
However when I leave the doctor's office and go home, my --multiple-- blood pressure machines always have a reasonably normal reading.
I found this out, because every doctor I've ever been to wants to put me on a higher dose of BP meds, and when I go on them, I get dizzy. Then on the follow up visit they say, I still have HBP and need to increase the dose again. Then I
Re: (Score:1)
Similar situation here. After bringing in my cuff to verify that it is accurate, he lets me bring in a couple of weeks worth of home readings (which are much much more normal) and we go from those.
AI? (Score:2)
Apple Intelligence? Aritificial intelligence? Artificial ingredients?
Re: I love you Apple (Score:2)
Apple's working hard with stories like this to reverse the perception that they're behind in the AI race.. so now every ML project they have is an AI project..? And yet my iPhone still somehow screws up summarizing 3 line txt messages into 2 lines?