{"id":85536,"date":"2018-12-06T08:23:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/apples-highly-anticipated-heart-monitoring-feature-is-finally-available-for-the-apple-watch"},"modified":"2018-12-06T08:23:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:23:59","slug":"apples-highly-anticipated-heart-monitoring-feature-is-finally-available-for-the-apple-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/apples-highly-anticipated-heart-monitoring-feature-is-finally-available-for-the-apple-watch","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s highly anticipated heart monitoring feature is finally available for the Apple Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apples-highly-anticipated-heart-monitoring-feature-is-finally-available-for-the-apple-watch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting on Thursday, the latest Apple Watch models will be able to take an ECG reading, a kind of heart-rate reading that doctors can use to diagnose heart conditions.<\/p>\n<p>To activate the feature, you need the Apple Watch Series 4 and the latest version of WatchOS, which will be available for download on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Apple made it easy to access the feature: turn on the app, hold your finger on the device\u2019s crown for 30 seconds, and it will provide a heart rhythm reading that you can use to figure out whether you need to contact your doctor to get your heart checked out. It saves the reading in a PDF file that you can send to your doctor.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-watch-heart-monitor-ecg-app-watchos-512-update-2018-12\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-watch-heart-monitor-ec...018&#45;12<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting on Thursday, the latest Apple Watch models will be able to take an ECG reading, a kind of heart-rate reading that doctors can use to diagnose heart conditions. To activate the feature, you need the Apple Watch Series 4 and the latest version of WatchOS, which will be available for download on Thursday. Apple [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}