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Fitbit's Move Into Medical Gadgets Risks Attracting FDA Scrutiny

  • Company is under pressure to be more than a consumer brand
  • `Inaccurate' heart monitors have already led to lawsuit

Fitbit Inc. won over Wall Street with a series of hit fitness trackers. Now, with competition intensifying and new products selling less briskly than expected, investors are clamoring for a next act.

Fitbit’s answer is turn itself into a “digital health company” that relies less on consumers. Having introduced a heart-monitoring bracelet last year, the company eventually wants to sell a range of clinical technology to the health-care industry.