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Thoughts on the Apple Watch

September 17, 2018 By Dr John

Apple products are cool. I love them.

But (even) Apple will struggle delivering health.

Making healthy people healthier is fraught with problems.

At the core of this issue are the many snags of screening people for disease.

Here are 600 words I wrote for Medium: I’m a Heart Doctor. Here’s Why I’m Wary of the New Apple Watch

Here are my thoughts in the Wall Street Journal:  https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-adds-heart-monitoring-fall-detection-features-to-its-watch-1536792518

And the Washington Post:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/14/what-cardiologists-think-about-apple-watchs-heart-tracking-feature/?utm_term=.3dd8d07c74f0

And The Atlantic:  https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/09/the-new-apple-watchs-heart-monitoring-is-complicated/570115/

And MarketWatch:  https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-watch-wants-to-monitor-your-hearts-health-and-cardiologists-say-it-could-make-you-worry-instead-2018-09-13

Even Slashdot:   https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/09/14/2125223/what-cardiologists-think-about-the-apple-watchs-heart-tracking-feature

My colleague Patrice Wendling from theheart.org |Medscape Cardiology captured some of my positive comments on the watch: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/902018

If you like academic prose, here is an editorial I co-wrote on AF-screening for the influential medical journal, JAMA-Internal Medicine: Screening for Atrial Fibrillation Comes With Many Snags

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Also … You can hear my thoughts on the five top cardiology stories each week on my podcast: This Week in Cardiology. The link on iTunes is here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-cardiology/id991125169?mt=2

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Welcome, Enjoy, Interact. john-mandrola I am a cardiac electrophysiologist practicing in Louisville KY. I am also a husband to a palliative care doctor, a father, a bike racer, and a regular columnist at theHeart.org | Medscape

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