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I work at a related company (Cardiogram), and there's a surprising amount of signal locked in the humble heart rate sensor -- we've run multiple studies with UCSF showing accurate detection of sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and even diabetes using off-the-shelf heart rate sensors and a deep neural network, DeepHeart: https://blog.cardiogr.am/screening-with-wearables-what-do-th...

If you're an engineer or payer relations expert and you'd like to help build the future of healthcare, definitely drop us a line! hello@cardiogr.am. We're especially looking for Javascript engineers, Android engineers, and salespeople with payer experience.

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Payer relations?

Does this mean insurance companies are interested in this heart rate data stream, and are making inferences from it? Are they already collecting it? Do any of these wearables provide this data to these companies without the user's express permission?

Is this a good thing?

The link isn't working for me (in Japan, if that helps) after the renewal, still.

I couldn't find a copy of the page in Google's cache or in the wayback archives.

I'm curious since I don't know anything about Cardiogram at all; is DeepHeart a part of Cardiogram? That is, are all of those detection capabilities part of your app if I have an Apple Watch?

I'm past the edit time limit, but I went to look up the app and downloaded it -- apparently the domain issue is also blocking new signups. :/

Heads up, your DNS is still broken! Will try emailing you a little later...

Some feedback - your website is very lacking in information about what your app actually does, what devices it works with etc. The blue "personal healthcare assistant" looks like a link but isn't.

I'm curious about your service, but without knowing if it's compatible with my smartwatch etc, I wouldn't go as far as downloading the app.

Do you know of an open dataset to experiment on?

Link doesn't work.

Weird - I was able to reproduce an error in loading https://blog.cardiogr.am/screening-with-wearables-what-do-th... by refreshing. I'll investigate, but for now, try refreshing the page.

Something's wrong with your DNS: https://dnschecker.org/#A/blog.cardiogr.am

They forgot to renew their domain:

    Domain name: cardiogr.am
    Registrar: abcdomain (ABCDomain LLC)
    Status: on hold
    ...
    Registered: 2015-03-17
    Last modified: 2019-03-17
    Expires: 2019-03-17

You got it—I renewed it 40 minutes ago. Bear with us as we get the renewal processed and DNS propagated.

One might say it's important kinda like a... heartbeat.

Happy 4 year domain birthday!

Still not resolving in a lot of places, also making your app not work (I’m in the UK).

I’ve tried sending an email to the address you posted here, but the email is failing to send to that address. Very interested in talking about engineering opportunities though!

Do you have to do another study each time you release new firmware?

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