Withings is making a cardiologist checkup part of its health subscription
If you’re a Withings device owner and a Withings Plus subscriber, there’s a new feature coming to your health tracking system. It’s a telemedicine service called Cardio Check-Up, designed to make it easy to check in on your heart health with a professional.
Any Withings device that collects electrocardiogram data (which is most of them at this point) can be used in Cardio Check-Up. The Withings Plus subscription, which costs $99.95 per year, will now include four checkups annually, though they’re not live appointments — a cardiologist will instead review your data and deliver you a heart health report. It works through a provider called Heartbeat Health, which has been working with Withings on EKG features for the last few years.
Cardio Check-Up gives Withings an answer to one of the most pressing challenges facing any health wearable, which is how to help users make sense of this mountain of complex data they’re suddenly collecting. Companies like Oura and Whoop are working on ways to collate your data into actual, actionable feedback, so you can know what’s going on and how to do better without needing a medical degree of your own.
Withings is doing lots of that automated...