rundhvid

Insightful and inspiring—thank you very much 🙏

But, Pre-care is very nearly always less expensive than post-incident care, and the added costs of false alarms is worth it.

—if only those with the means (and the responsibility) to set in motion a long overdue revision of the health care system, would take a minute to reflect on this. Perhaps a granddaughter could assist—it is not rocket science but quite intuitive: do you prefer risk of sudden onset of life threatening illness, or periodic consultations with your doctor thereby facilitating detection of early warning signs and implementation of preventive measures which—in many cases—will mitigate risk of severe health problems.

beowulfschmidt said:

rundhvid said:

beowulfschmidt said:

It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.  Skin surface temperature is less indicative of a problem than temperatures taken internally.  I imagine it's still doable, otherwise those skin temp sensors that even doctors are using now on kids and such would be pointless.  And they obviously are not.

I agree this could prove to be interesting.

As I understand it, the oxygen saturation sensor in  Watch series 6 can be set to monitor continuously—I hope the temperature sensor will be implemented in a similar manner.

"Continuously" isn't precisely correct.  Based on the data in my health app, it looks like it's doing it about every half hour.  I don't remember setting that up, so it might be default behavior.

rundhvid said:

skin temperature is a screening tool and it is therefore relevant.

"Screening tool" is the concept I was looking for and not expressing well.  Skin temp is a screening tool, not a diagnostic one.  Thanks.

Thank you very much for confirming my hope/understanding (almost, anyway) of the saturation sensor in the series 6  Watch 🙏
—I’m rocking the series 4.

In hindsight, I should have used something other than “continuously”, as this would only be meaningful in a hospital setting (happens when you can’t separate off-duty activities from your clinical research 🙈).
My fear was that the saturation sensor (and the rumored skin temperature sensor) would require manual activation, similar to the ECG. In this context, twice an hour is acceptable but not impressive. Battery life is the likely culprit.
Sensor accuracy/reliability in a workout setting (both types of sensors) is probably a bit iffy, and so a higher sampling frequency (I would suggest a variable frequency similar to the heart rate sensor) wouldn’t provide further insight into workout activities—thus, a reasonable compromise given that all sensors are rendered pointless while the  Watch is taking a break on its charger!

Skin temp is a screening tool, not a diagnostic one.

Well—in an ideal world—yes, sure 😉

beowulfschmidt said:

It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.  Skin surface temperature is less indicative of a problem than temperatures taken internally.  I imagine it's still doable, otherwise those skin temp sensors that even doctors are using now on kids and such would be pointless.  And they obviously are not.

I agree this could prove to be interesting.

As I understand it, the oxygen saturation sensor in  Watch series 6 can be set to monitor continuously—I hope the temperature sensor will be implemented in a similar manner.

—the enormous health care value of  Watch is the non-stop monitoring of reliable data (which is another reason why all-day-battery is important).

Skin temperature is obviously not uninteresting, but medically speaking, measurement of other than core temperature directly, is only valid as a screening tool and clinical decisions should be based on core temperature.

—a long winded attempt at saying:
skin temperature is a screening tool and it is therefore relevant.
In short: I agree.

…, nothing to see here, move on 👀

Any info on compatibility with the Apple Afterburner card?