The Food and Drug Administration has given Fitbit the green light to monitor users' heart rhythms in the background. A new photoplethysmography (PPG) algorithm can passively check a user's heart ...

Health tech: Fitbit's line of wearable watches might have started as simple step trackers, but their capabilities have expanded greatly over the years. The company now sells full smartwatches, and ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized a new Fitbit feature designed to continuously monitor a wearer’s heart rhythms for signs of atrial fibrillation. The roll-out is based on a ...

Google announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted clearance for a long-awaited algorithm to detect atrial fibrillation (AFib) in users through select Fitbit smartwatches and ...

Fitbit has just vaulted over a huge hurdle: it can now continuously monitor users’ heart rhythms. This was authorized by the US’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — and takes the wearable company a ...

Google has announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its product, Fitbit, to use a new feature that will identify atrial fibrillation (AFib). In a statement on Monday, Google ...

Google has submitted a new Fitbit heart monitoring feature to the FDA, which could automatically alert users to problematic heart rate rhythms. Fitbit is one of a handful of wearable tech companies ...

While the step counters and run tracker apps of the world get most of the attention, a growing number of apps in the marketplace are serving serious clinical needs. One is AliveCor‘s AliveECG app, ...

Three studies demonstrate how Philips MCOT wearable ambulatory monitoring ECG and proprietary AI models applied to ECG digital biomarkers can help to improve diagnosis, reduce readmissions, and lower ...

Findings in a younger, commercially insured population build on Medicare-based CAMELOT results, expanding the generalizability of Zio LTCM's clinical impact across patient groups. Latest data showed ...