Fitbit has expanded its open API, aimed at the health tech industry to include in-depth health metrics. The open API enables health researchers to build large scale studies using Fitbit devices.

You could already use your Fitbit to watch for signs of atrial fibrillation (AFib), but now you can automatically share that data with professionals. A secure API is intended to limit access to only ...

Fitbit devices can check for signs of an irregular heart rhythm, or atrial fibrillation (AFib), and Google is now making it easier to share that data with your healthcare provider. Irregular Rhythm ...

On Tuesday, Fitbit Health Solutions and Google Cloud announced they're launching a new service to help healthcare and life science organizations utilize data from wearables. The company said that ...

Instead of a patient having to export and share Afib data with their healthcare provider, doctors can now access this information from within the Fitbit Web API. According to Google, this could allow ...

Medical records support is being introduced to the Health Connect app in Android 16. Fitbit may soon be able to work with Health Connect’s new medical records feature. Users will be able to store data ...

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On Wednesday, Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google announced that it is upgrading the heart health monitoring features of Fitbit, making it easier for medical professionals to access ...

With roughly a week to go before thousands of devices are unwrapped under the tree, Fitbit has pushed out a bevy of updates to its smartwatches that make it easier for wearers to quickly grasp their ...