from ASUS Pressroom, so raise your hype filters.
https://press.asus.com/news/press-releases/asus-com-news-ai-driven-healthcare-computex/
The holy grail of consumer health tech is a watch that monitors blood sugar. Apple watch seems to be the top contender and its health-tracking app is good, but even Apple can't get non-invasive glucose monitoring to work after years of trying.
The problem with so many watch-based health metrics is that they are based on an algorithm, not a direct measure.
They will tell you your power while running, but they have no idea
The will tell you your VO2max, but this is just a guess based on speed and, possibly, heart rate, not a direct measure of expired gasses.
Same with metrics of sleep and a lot of other things watches report.
They simply are not measuring the thing they say they are, but a proxy and in a lot of cases, especially outlier cases, the proxy is a poor measure. And quite often the outlier cases are the ones you really care about in terms of health.
Nevertheless, for things they can measure directly, like heart rate, more advanced algorithms looking for anomalies have proven pretty useful.
>measure directly, like heart rate
And I've read that once they do that for glucose (others??) they have to get certification in the US as a medical device.
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yep, found this;
Apple Watch 4 Is Now An FDA Class 2 Medical Device: Detects Falls, Irregular Heart Rhythm
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanbaptiste/2018/09/14/apple-watch-4-is-now-an-fda-class-2-medical-device-detects-falls-irregular-heart-rhythm/