Steve Blank discusses the future of your health care in this blog post. China has made building a local device and diagnostic industry one of their critical national initiatives.  The US is now changing FDA guidelines to make this happen with diagnostic wearables.   

The post on the new Apple Watch 4 discusses the big deal of the implications of outpatient diagnostics performed by wearable consumer devices. As baseline data is collected on tens of millions of healthy people to train disease prediction algorithms, the FDA has changed their mobile and digital device guidelines to make this happen. Insurers will ultimately pay for diagnostic wearable for glucose monitoring, blood pressure, UV detection, and respiration. Apple’s new Watch has two heart diagnostic apps cleared by the FDA.

Imagine a future when you get an Apple Watch (or equivalent) through your insurer to monitor your health for early warning signs of heart attack, stroke, Parkinson’s disease and to help you monitor and manage diabetes, as well as reminding you about medications and tracking your exercise. And when combined with an advanced iPhone with additional FDA cleared screening apps for early detection of skin cancer, glaucoma, cataracts, and other diseases, the future of your health will truly be in your own hands.