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Apple, Fitbit emerge as first responders for healthcare

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In a couple of years, your wearables likely will be monitoring your blood pressure. And in just a few years after that, they may even be able to keep tabs on your blood sugar. But they probably won’t share any of the measurements with you.


Of course, those two metrics are vitally important. Nearly half of all adults in the country have high blood pressure, and more than 500,000 Americans die of it each year. One in three either have prediabetes or diabetes, the seventh leading cause of death.

But after years of bombarding us with incessant streams of step counts, hours of sleep and heart rate measurements, wearables makers are coming to understand that they can put together a far more useful, compelling look at our health with less data. So they increasingly are offering more holistic views of our activity, and how they interrelate. Like, for example, the impact of the steps you logged yesterday on your sleep quality last night.

“To me, success is not measured by whether I can give you a metric,” Eric Friedman, co-founder and CTO of Fitbit, told me. “It’s whether I can help you become healthier.”