Entering the cardiovascular healthcare segment, fitness tracker GOQii has introduced its new service, GOQii Heart Care. This service allows customers to connect to cardiovascular specialists through the GOQii application and has a new GOQii tracker with capabilities to measure heart rate. GOQii's hospital partner Max Hospital will connect customers to doctors. Max Healthcare claims to have a network of 14 hospitals, 2300+ doctors, offering treatment across all 29 specialties. How to use the service: To use this new feature, GOQii users have to share their health and heart rate data via the new GOQii tracker with the GOQii Doctor for his analysis. The doctor will go through this data and provide specific inputs to the users on how to maintain good heart health. In specific cases, if required the GOQii doctor will refer the user to a cardiac specialists at Max Hospital and other partner hospitals. The company notes that the heart care service is not a replacement for a regular doctor and does not apply for any emergency medical or chronic situations. According to the release, GOQii 2.0 band incorporating the Heart Care Service will be available on Amazon from February 14th 2017. Consumers can also upgrade their existing wearable devices with the new service. With regards to third party hardware which includes the Heart Rate Monitor, consumers can avail the new service by paying a nominal consultation fee. The services along with the new GOQii Heart Rate tracker will be available at a subscription Rs 2999 for 6 months and 3999 for 12…
