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ECG on Ecuador South America

I think it’s about time to Apple get the ECG service on Ecuador South America. Let us know when the service is going to be available. A lot of people ask the same question.

Posted on Feb 21, 2023 6:20 AM

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Posted on Feb 21, 2023 6:45 AM

This is a user forum, you are not addressing apple here just fellow users


ECG is

viewed as a medical device which mean it require official approval from the

government of a country before it's legal for apple to offer


these are

the countries which has provided with said approval so far

watchOS - Feature Availability - Apple

 

ECG

implies that citizens' medical data be stored by a foreign third-party company

without individual approval by the government of said country, and that is not

something all countries feel comfortable with.


 

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Feb 21, 2023 6:45 AM in response to neojogo3

This is a user forum, you are not addressing apple here just fellow users


ECG is

viewed as a medical device which mean it require official approval from the

government of a country before it's legal for apple to offer


these are

the countries which has provided with said approval so far

watchOS - Feature Availability - Apple

 

ECG

implies that citizens' medical data be stored by a foreign third-party company

without individual approval by the government of said country, and that is not

something all countries feel comfortable with.


 

Feb 21, 2023 4:38 PM in response to neojogo3

Be aware, that Australia went through 2 years of posts with lots of finger pointing by users in the posts. Some saying they talked with a government official that said Apple never applied, and others saying the Australian process does not work that way, and lots of other claims.


Then Australia change the law that prohibited the Apple Watch ECG, and very shortly there after, the Apple Watch offered ECG support in Australia.


All the finger pointing that occurred in the posts about Australian ECG was mostly pointing at the wrong issue, and blaming Apple was misplaced, because it was an Australian law that was blocking ECG.


What I'm getting at, is that A) you have to talk to the correct government official, B) find out if there are laws that stop Apple from offering ECG, C) make sure that you do not ask leading questions that have "keywords" which mean something different to the government official than they do to you, as the official may answer with an easy "No", when in reality, Apple has initiated a process that has a different "keyword", and have been blocked because of some issue having nothing to do with the keyword you asked.

ECG on Ecuador South America

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