i'm 72 which gives me a long list of conditions that can benefit from advanced sensors in an iPhone or Apple Watch.
While sensors for pulseox or glucose is needed I believe that sensors for chemical levels that can help determine the needed medications. Ewe see the start of that now where generic testing can help determine the best treatment. Expand that to a wide range of conditions and you have an explosive potential of a market.
Using sensors to detect blood levels of medications -- and use that to trigger the timing and amount of the next dose would be a massive step forward. We already have a taste of that with embedded insulin pumps.
One wonderful use for it would be with blood thinners: As a home health nurse one of my nightmares was Warfarin -- the patient's blood would be tested for clotting time every 2 weeks and the dose adjusted which created huge swings in dosage which resulted in dangerous over or under clotting times.
But, I think we are LONG way away from the medical community accepting anything like that: They are fighting the switch from using blood lab vials to single drop testing from a finger prick tooth and nail. The idea of them accepting sampling from an Apple Watch is way too 21st century for them.
The chip sounds interesting but at $100 is not going into any mass produce phone or watch anytime soon. It's going to have to get down into the $1 range at most.
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One wonderful use for it would be with blood thinners: As a home health nurse one of my nightmares was Warfarin -- the patient's blood would be tested for clotting time every 2 weeks and the dose adjusted which created huge swings in dosage which resulted in dangerous over or under clotting times.
But, I think we are LONG way away from the medical community accepting anything like that: They are fighting the switch from using blood lab vials to single drop testing from a finger prick tooth and nail. The idea of them accepting sampling from an Apple Watch is way too 21st century for them.