Surgeons to monitor hip, knee patients using Apple Watches

Editor's Note

Zimmer Biomet and Apple Inc have begun a multiyear study that will allow surgeons to use Apple Watches to monitor activities, including heart rate, steps taken, and standing hours of up to 100,000 patients before and after hip and knee replacement surgery, the October 15 Reuters reports.

Providers at four hospitals and more than a dozen other medical facilities in Massachusetts, California, Michigan, and Colorado, will be able to use the smartwatch to evaluate how well patients are following prescribed physiotherapy or regimens before and after surgery.