Can you Imagine the Apple watch monitoring Blood Glucose levels?

[Kavsuvb]

Can you imagine one day, Apple watches monitoring your Blood Glucose Level? Apple is working on the technology and we in the EMS world could see this coming down the road in the very near future.

Can the Apple Watch Monitor Your Blood Sugar Levels?

Learn about the Apple's Watch's many health-tracking features and find out whether it can (or ever will) monitor blood glucose.

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Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch

Apple Inc. has a moonshot-style project underway that dates back to the Steve Jobs era: noninvasive and continuous blood glucose monitoring.

www.bloomberg.com

Apple is reportedly closer to bringing no-prick glucose monitoring to the Watch

Apple has supposedly made huge progress on bringing no-prick blood glucose monitoring to the Apple Watch.

www.engadget.com

 

[DesertMedic66]

It seems only logical for it to keep progressing. It already records your heart rate, can do an EKG, can monitor your SpO2, and also monitors your body temperature. I wouldn’t be surprised if they find a way to monitor blood pressures without having a bulky cuff.

 

[ffemt8978]

It seems only logical for it to keep progressing. It already records your heart rate, can do an EKG, can monitor your SpO2, and also monitors your body temperature. I wouldn’t be surprised if they find a way to monitor blood pressures without having a bulky cuff.

It does raise some serious privacy concerns, especially in regards to the Third Party Doctrine. What's to stop law enforcement from obtaining your health data that Apple has on file for you?

 

[DesertMedic66]

It does raise some serious privacy concerns, especially in regards to the Third Party Doctrine. What's to stop law enforcement from obtaining your health data that Apple has on file for you?

Apple has a pretty good track record for not providing information to the police which has sometimes gotten them into some hot water (e.g. refusing to unlock phones of the San Bernardino terrorists).

My guess is they would make it so all the health data is stored solely on the device and/or iCloud and encrypted with only the user having the key.

 

[ffemt8978]

Apple has a pretty good track record for not providing information to the police which has sometimes gotten them into some hot water (e.g. refusing to unlock phones of the San Bernardino terrorists).

My guess is they would make it so all the health data is stored solely on the device and/or iCloud and encrypted with only the user having the key.

You say that and it may have been the case so far, but that doesn't mean it can't or won't change.

 

[Kavsuvb]

It seems only logical for it to keep progressing. It already records your heart rate, can do an EKG, can monitor your SpO2, and also monitors your body temperature. I wouldn’t be surprised if they find a way to monitor blood pressures without having a bulky cuff.

I would not be surprised if Apple Engineers are working on a way to Monitor Blood pressure via Apple watch.