New Research Studies

With the new Blood Oxygen Sensor in the Apple Watch Series 6, Apple is also backing three new ResearchKit studies that will help to determine how “longitudinal SPO2 measurements” can be combined with other data from the Apple Watch sensors, such as heart rate, to predict and diagnose various medical and health conditions.

Apple is partnering with the University of California Irvine for a study related to asthma using physiological signals, another study with the University Health Network and the University of Toronto on how SPO2 can be used to manage heart failures, and lastly a COVID-related study by the University of Washington School of Medicine to understand how the novel coronavirus interplays with influenza.