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The study enrolled more than 28,000 participants, and the follow-up period lasted as long as three years.
The system can stream the data into an EHR, mobile app, cloud portal or integrated monitoring system.
The latest feature can now be combined with Samsung's cuffless blood pressure monitoring feature, which got approval in South Korea a few weeks ago.
The item could measure blood pressure, respiration rate and ECG signals.
A new study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging found that a smartphone camera combined with a transdermal optical imaging system could accurately predict blood pressure.
The daily-use digital intervention yielded "clinically meaningful" improvement in blood pressure among 172 users.
Partner AliveCor also got a mysterious new FDA clearance.
Comorbid patients with hypertension and diabetes saw an average blood pressure drop of 11.2/5.2 mm Hg.
The HeartGuide watch uses a flexible synthetic band to inflate and maintain its shape to comfortably take an oscillometric wrist blood pressure on the fly.