Jawbone is no more and we’ve known that for a while. It’s been replaced by Jawbone Health a more health-focused platform that does still involve a wearable but more of the clinical-grade kind as opposed to a Fitbit Charge 3 rival.
Since the transition from Jawbone to Jawbone Health, the company has been very quiet on all things concerning its move away from the UP devices it once sold. CEO Hosain Rahman has decided to talk a little more about what we can expect from Jawbone Health including playing nice with Apple’s smartwatch. He also tells us what went wrong before it shifted to serious health tracking.
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Rahman was speaking to Recode for the latest episode of its Decode podcast and a transcript of the chat reveals how Jawbone Health will work.
“So, what Jawbone Health is building is this personalized subscription service where we take all of this continuous health data about you and we combine that with a lot of machine intelligence, so AI plus human doctors. They go analyze all this data. The idea is to catch issues going on with you, health issues, particularly in the lifestyle,” said Rahman.
Rahman explained that the company learned that they had to have clinical grade sensor technology to be able to deliver those sort of insights described above. Doing that involved getting its tech used in clinical trials and getting approval from the appropriate governing bodies. It’s already produced studies that prove its tech is 99% accurate at predicting atrial fibrillation, a heart condition that both Apple and Fitbit is also exploring with their wearables.
The service will be based on a monthly subscription model that includes a device built by the company to track your data. But it is also going to let people build on its sensor technology and Rahman said it’s going to integrate the Apple Watch now that they’ve gone to a “clinical grade level”.
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