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Samsung's Galaxy Watch
By  Jessica Hagen 11:15 am May 10, 2023
Tech giant Samsung Electronics announced it received FDA clearance for its Health Monitor app's Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification (IHRN) feature.  IHRN works with the app's electrocardiogram function to monitor heart rhythms suggestive of atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm. If AFib is detected, the Galaxy Watch prompts the user to take an ECG with the Watch.  The feature will be...
New sleep-related features on the Samsung Galaxy Watch
By  Adam Ang 02:29 am May 8, 2023
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has introduced the latest One UI 5 Watch with a new feature that supports quality sleep.  WHAT IT'S ABOUT The latest software on the Galaxy Watch devices has three new sleep-related features. First, the Sleep Insights UI presents a user's sleep score from the prior night's rest, along with related metrics, including sleep phases, snoring hours, and...
A person wearing a Samsung Galaxy Watch5 displaying a period prediction.
By  Emily Olsen 11:10 am February 14, 2023
Samsung is partnering with Natural Cycles to add temperature-based period tracking to its Galaxy Watch5 series of smartwatches. According to the electronics giant, the new cycle tracking capabilities will launch in the Samsung Health app in the second quarter in 32 markets in Europe, North America and Asia, including the U.S. The company said adding Natural Cycles' technology will "give users...
An image of the ECG feature on a Samsung Galaxy smartwatch
By  Dave Muoio 02:03 pm January 26, 2021
Samsung is moving forward with a steady rollout of blood pressure measurement and ECG monitoring on its consumer smartwatches. After securing regulatory approvals and launching the features in South Korea and the U.S. last year, the tech company announced today that both health monitoring tools will soon be released in an additional 31 countries. The expansion follows the Samsung Health Monitor...
By  Dave Muoio 10:01 am August 6, 2020
Alongside yesterday's reveal of the Galaxy Watch3, Samsung announced that it has received regulatory clearance from the FDA for its ECG monitoring app. But while the watch – which also has built-in sensors enabling blood pressure and blood oxygen saturation – is slated for release on Aug. 6, the company did not say specifically when the new Samsung Health Monitor app that enables these features...
By  Dave Muoio 01:31 pm June 4, 2020
Handwashing may be a routine habit for some, but for everyone else who struggles to sanitize there's now a smartwatch app from Samsung that encourages regular, thorough handwashing. Available for a free download on a range Samsung smartwatches (all of them waterproof), the app's alarm reminds users to wash their hands at pre-scheduled intervals throughout the course of a day. A dashboard screen...