Consumer wearables; upgrading from fitness monitoring to reliable med device

With the availability of Apple's watch and Kardia ECG monitoring wearable device, the wearer can now get to know health of the heart in real time. However it is very much questionable whether these devices can detect any heart attack for sure. But if you look at the progress the wearable devices are making,they are getting close to becoming physicians recommended medical devices. There is a consumer craze in buying wearables for health and fitness monitoring. The market is full of products all the way from high-end Apple to lot of China made products. Apple continues to improve its wearable devices' performance and features close to physician approved/prescribed medical devices in the market. Normally approved medical devices undergo lot of testings and certifications by government authorized safety testing bodies before they are being prescribed. They are generally expensive. Now they are under competition from these consumer market targeted wearables with lot of health monitoring features. Immbg content_humanbody.jpg Differences can be comparable to mobile phone camera competing with SLR camera. You always don't need SLR camera for most of the picture capturing, when you get comparable quality pictures from your smart phone. It looks like the wearable devices is progressing in this direction and replacing expensive and exclusive medical devices. Some of the good exa...