Apple mHealth plans may go beyond the Watch?

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Apple may be working on some new, still unannounced medical devices, if we can take this Telegraph report for something.

In an interview with the paper, the company’s CEO Tim Cook said that Apple doesn’t need an FDA approval for the Watch but may ask for it for some other product.

“We don’t want to put the watch through the Food and Drug Administration process,” Cook said. “I wouldn’t mind putting something adjacent to the watch through it, but not the watch, because it would hold us back from innovating too much, the cycles are too long. But you can begin to envision other things that might be adjacent to it – maybe an app, maybe something else.”

And… the Internet exploded with speculation what could be Apple’s next (or that’s first?) mHealth device. Cook did note the health benefits of the Apple Watch, which lets customers monitor activity and heart rate, and has even added an example of a senior high school football player whose Watch saved his life.

“He learnt from his watch that his heart rate was elevated; he mentioned it to his trainer who became very worried about it. He sent him to the doctor, and the doctor told him he would have died the following day had he not come in. Basically, his organs were shutting down,” he said.

Unfortunately, no numbers were mentioned, leaving the industry to ponder just how many Watch units Apple has moved…