Garmin's Secret ECG Feature & Clinical Trials Detailed

Garmin appears to have included ECG functionality within their recently released Venu 2 Plus smartwatch, albeit without acknowledging its existence or including the feature at launch. This is notable because there’s currently no Garmin wearable with ECG functionality on it, well, at least officially anyway. Still, Garmin’s shift towards medical devices and specifically ECG functionality wouldn’t necessarily be a surprise. Last spring, Garmin quietly began a clinical trial (2021) to test ECG-related features “derived from a Garmin wrist-worn, consumer device”.

The presence of an ECG diagnostics hardware diagnostics app on the Venu 2 Plus, combined with Garmin’s clinical trials testing, indicates the company is clearly working towards a goal of launching ECG functionality in their wearables. Of course, the timing of that is still unknown – as well as whether or not the Venu 2 Plus will *ever* officially gain ECG functionality.

When the company launched the Venu 2 Plus this past January, its core new features were a speaker/microphone, with calling-related functions. Omitted from that list, was any mention of ECG functionality – or even future ECG functionality. The fact that we’re seeing it now is largely due to a seemingly accidental act that left it in the diagnostic menus on units that were produced prior to February. Garmin has since removed that diagnostic menu in a firmware update, though it’s highly doubtful they’ve removed the actual ECG hardware.

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