Withings Goes Big On Heart Health Inc Cardiologist Check-Up Service

Withings is known primarily as a smartwatch maker, but its latest releases dig much deeper into the topic of cardiovascular health.

At CES 2025, Withings announced both a blood pressure monitor and a new subscription feature that includes quarterly check-ups with a cardiologist.

The blood pressure monitor is called BPM Vision and is designed for easy portable use. It is stored in a carry case, and like the many other widely available solutions, it uses an inflatable cuff to determine your blood pressure.

This is not Withings’ first blood pressure monitor. It already had the BPM Connect, an even more slimline affair.

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The BPM Vision’s aim appears to be to make checking your results on the device itself much clearer and easier — rather than just doing so on a connected phone. It has a relatively large color OLED screen, where the display of the BPM Connect shines through a translucent part of the casing, designed to be invisible when not in use.

As such, the BPM Vision is more of a traditional device, and can relay instructions on the Vision’s own display.

It’s set to cost $130 and is due in April, pending a green light from the Food and Drug Administration.

Withings Cardio Check-Up

Withings’ new Cardio Check-Up feature is rather more unusual and comes as part of the Withings Plus subscription. You request one to check your recent heart data is looking OK.

You’ll be entitled to four check-ups a year as part of an annual Withings Plus Plan. Monthly members will have a Cardio Check-Up unlocked every three months.

Withings says this shares your ECG data, as well as “health and wellness information” with cardiologists, in order to check for signs of atrial fibrillation and other anomalies, including:

1. Salvo
2. AV-Block
3. Sinus Arrest
4. Leg Block Pattern
5. Triplet
6. Extrasystole (Ventricular, Supraventricular)
7. Ventricular Tachycardia (VT)
8. Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
9. Pauses
10. Bigeminus
11. Trigeminal
12. Couplet
13. SV Runs (Supraventricular Runs)
14. Substitute Rhythms
15. Sinus Arrhythmias
16. Sinus with PACs (Premature Atrial Contractions)
17. Sinus with PVCs (Premature Ventricular Contractions)
18. Sinus Bradycardia
19. Sinus Tachycardia
20. Atrial flutter
21. Heart block

The company says it “collaborates with cardiologists in each country to provide you with localized, expert insights tailored to your specific health needs, depending on your territory.”

There is, for once, no mention of AI used here. It sounds like real, human clinicians are involved in Cardio Check-Up. But no in-person or phone appointment is involved. You’ll simply see the check-up results in the Withings app.

The service requires the use of a Withings device with the ability to record ECG data. These include the ScanWatch 2, ScanWatch Nova and Nova Brilliant, the Body Scan scale and BPM Core blood pressure monitor.

Cardio Check-Up is available in the U.S., France and Germany. Withings plans to “expand to additional territories later.”