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Apple expects to notify 100M people that they have hypertension in a year

(appleinsider.com)
42 points brandonb | 1 comments | 09 Sep 25 18:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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lp0_on_fire ◴[09 Sep 25 19:20 UTC] No.45187338[source]▶
From the article: "it will warn of a potential issue rather than diagnose it"

Seems like lawyer speak for "please don't sue us if we get this wrong" but I suspect the ad campaign for this feature will suggest otherwise.

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1. brandonb ◴[09 Sep 25 19:28 UTC] No.45187463[source]▶
The reason they do this is that their algorithm makes errors, and setting it this way means they can tune for a high specificity (giving up some sensitivity).

The breathing disturbances notifications work in a similar way. They alert you to potential sleep apnea, but then you need to do an at-home or in-lab sleep study in order to get a diagnosis.