Apple Watch to Help Diagnose Cardiac Dysfunction, Mayo Clinic AI Algorithm Under FDA Review

The Apple Watch is seeing another health tech focus for its use, and this centers on helping diagnose an abnormality in one's heart, centering on an underlying condition that may be unknown to a patient. The Mayo Clinic shared its latest research behind this, centering on cardiac dysfunction which researchers used an AI algorithm to help detect.

The team used Apple Watch's ECG data from multiple patients which they run on their algorithm to help test and determine if one is present with the disease.

Apple Watch Helps Diagnose Cardiac Dysfunction

Mayo Clinic already published the results of their study in Nature's publication, with their paper entitled "Prospective evaluation of smartwatch-enabled detection of left ventricular dysfunction." The paper talks about how used Apple Watch's electrocardiogram (ECG) feature helped in delivering the sufficient data that the researchers needed for their study.

According to My Healthy Apple, the study consisted of 2,454 patients from the United States and 11 other countries, with all of them being Apple Watch users.

Over 125,000 ECGs were sent during the study, and this helped their study to detect the cardiac dysfunction that remains unfelt by a patient.

Mayo Clinic's New AI Algorithm

The left ventricular dysfunction is what pumps oxygen to the entire body and its organs, and problems with it often remain undiagnosed, not until it leads to congestive heart failure. The ECG data from the Apple Watch will run under Mayo Clinic's new AI algorithm to help detect any underlying cardiac dysfunction and help its owner get ahead of the disease.

Apple Watch and Health Tech

The Apple Watch is more than a wearable accessory for the iPhone in the modern world, also exceeding its initial purpose as a fitness tracker which evolved over time. Not only does it track one's health, but it also helps in keeping data and information of a person on hand, one that they may relay to doctors and physicians for one's tests and checkups.

Apple made it one versatile device, a wearable that does not conform to only one purpose for its services, but for many of their needs and requirements for it.

Another feature now available for the Apple Watch is its famous Fall Detection, a function that determines if a person sees any kind of accident or drops down to the floor. It is extremely helpful for those living alone or remotely, and when emergencies strike, calling for help may be impossible.

But here is where the Apple Watch comes in with its Fall Detection feature.

Now, the Apple Watch has been given a new purpose by the Mayo Clinic researchers, centering on a new heart disease that is a silent killer. Now, patients may have more information regarding their health that they can tell their doctors and health consultants, especially in catching an illness or disease early on, to prevent it from taking over their lives.

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Written by Isaiah Richard