But a study recently published by the renowned “Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association” ensures that many people go to the hospital on the advice of their connected objects, without having real symptoms.
The study was carried out retroactively on the examination of patients who had presented to healthcare personnel on the recommendations of their Apple Watch. In the study, it is said that Apple had already internally given the figure of 65% false positives. But according to researchers, this figure was still overestimated. Because an increase, although abnormal, in the pulse rate, does not mean that the person is in poor health and even less that they are suffering from atrial fibrillation.
Apple Watch works, but is not diagnostic in itself
In this study therefore, looking back at the case of 264 patients, only 41 actually had an abnormally high pulse when they arrived at the hospital. And only 30 actually suffered from atrial fibrillation and were therefore treated.
Faced with these results, researchers warn consumers as well as the FDA, for Food and Drugs Administration. They ask the American organization to take into account this very high case of false positives which use care means for nothing, and take the place of people who are really ill. The study suggests increasing research on population groups who are least at risk, and who represent a large part of the false positives in the study.
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