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Apple Watch ECG feature set to come to Australia after regulatory approval – 9to5Mac
Australian government’s Therapeutic Goods Administration just approved the ECG feature on Apple Watch, and Apple can launch it in the country.
Apple launched the ECG feature in 2018 exclusively for the Apple Watch Series 4 and primarily in the US with the FDA approval. Three years after that, some countries got the electrocardiogram app, and Australia is probably the next one to get the feature.
As first spotted by 8-Bit, the Australian government’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approved the ECG function in the country yesterday, under “Medical Device Class IIa.”
Here’s what TGA said in the document of approval:
The ECG app is…
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