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Garmin ECG Feature Is Now Live: Here’s how it works! - DC Rainmaker
Jan 24, 2023 1 min, 2 secs
That hardware has essentially two major components: A wire connected to the bezel (inside the watch), and a small metal ring around the outside of the optical HR sensor.

Finally, if you’re reading this in the seconds after I hit publish (at 7:00AM US Eastern Time), then Garmin also says there may be a very slight delay of an hour or so till the feature shows up as live for everyone.

Rather, they’re certifying the “ECG App” running atop the Venu 2 Plus, and specifically, they’re proving to the FDA that it was “substantially equivalent” to an existing FDA-cleared device.

They did however note that a new EU regulation that came into effect in 2021 marked a pretty significant shift in the certification approach, making it more thorough than previous, and also extending the timelines too.

The good news though is that like Apple and others, this doesn’t stop Garmin from releasing new watches with ECG hardware, that’s simply turned on by region as approval happens.

And even the Venu 2 Plus itself is only at the lower end of the mid-range Garmin pricing these days, with far more expensive units above it that would certainly be logical candidates for ECG inclusion in new hardware variants.

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