On the Apple Watch soon blood pressure measurement and fertility thermometer

Apple Watch is increasingly at the heart of Apple’s ambitions in the healthcare industry. The Cupertino company, according to the Wall Street Journal, is working on new features for its smartwatch, including blood pressure measurement and a basal thermometer to calculate the fertile period. The latter could be ready as early as next year, along with improved irregular heartbeat tracking and an update to sleep tracking, according to sources and internal documents accessed by The Wall Street Journal. In the coming weeks, the company is expected to launch the seventh version of the Apple Watch, according to analysts, but most of its new features shouldn’t be available until 2022. In the future, Apple plans to equip its smartwatch with tools to detect sleep apnea, provide medical advice when it registers a low level of oxygen in the blood and, perhaps someday, detect diabetes. These latter functions could be added in many years, or perhaps never, they wanted to specify the sources. The plan just listed underlines Apple’s ambitions in the healthcare sector, on which CEO Tim Cook has decided to focus. Cook, in early 2019, said that Apple will make the “greatest contribution to humanity” in this area. Not surprisingly, Apple advertises the Watch with the slogan “The future of health is on your wrist”.

Last year, the sale of the Watch brought nearly $ 13 billion into Apple’s coffers, with a 65% share of revenues in the global smartwatch market, according to data from Strategy Analytics. Hypertension, in the United States alone, affects up to 108 million adults and is a factor in the deaths of half a million people per year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many do not even know they suffer from hypertension: for this reason, a wearable device, capable of identifying the problem and recording a person’s conditions, could save hundreds of lives and be a great success for the Cupertino company.