Samsung, b.properly associate to offer longitudinal knowledge to Galaxy smartphone customers

b.well Connected Health, a patient-facing well being administration platform, introduced it’s integrating its choices into the Samsung Well being app to offer Galaxy smartphone customers with a single platform to entry their well being knowledge, obtain well being insights and suggestions, and join with care suppliers just about and in individual.

b.properly’s FHIR-enabled platform connects a affected person’s well being data, wearable knowledge and extra. The corporate works with employers, payers and suppliers to supply a single platform for customers to entry their longitudinal well being knowledge. 

Samsung Well being is a free utility that permits customers to trace their bodily actions, weight loss plan and sleep. 

By way of the partnership, Samsung Well being’s customers will be capable of entry their scientific data and wearables, laboratory, pharmacy and insurance coverage knowledge, together with data from CMS and Veterans Affairs. Customers will be capable of acquire an entire view of their well being data and decide how it’s shared and utilized.

The b.properly platform can even assist customers connect with taking part in-person, digital and digital suppliers and remind sufferers of the necessity for preventative screening based mostly on well being knowledge tracked by way of their machine. 

The primary firms leveraging the partnership’s choices are Walgreens, Florida-based well being system Lee Well being, nonprofit healthcare group ThedaCare and healthcare companies firm Rise Well being. 

“In the present day’s information represents an enormous step towards a healthcare expertise that’s extra clear and handy. Well being knowledge is just the start — it is the personalised insights and actionable care connections that may create significant change for shoppers,” Kristen Valdes, founder and CEO of b.properly, mentioned in a press release. “We’re excited to assist Samsung’s imaginative and prescient to create a really related healthcare ecosystem the place shoppers are answerable for their well being knowledge and obtain well timed insights alongside clear, actionable decisions that make it straightforward to handle their total household’s well being.”

THE LARGER TREND

Final week, Samsung announced that Korea’s Ministry of Meals and Drug Security (MFDS) accredited the sleep apnea characteristic in its Samsung Well being Monitor app, which allows customers to detect obstructive sleep apnea signs within the dysfunction’s early phases. The corporate mentioned it’s going to add the characteristic to the Galaxy Watch sequence early subsequent yr.

At HIMSS23 in Chicago in April, Samsung unveiled its Samsung Health Stack 1.0, an open-source challenge to assist in digital well being analysis by serving to researchers construct apps, evaluation instruments and back-end servers for wearable units based mostly on the Put on OS and Android working techniques. 

Final yr, California-based digital healthcare supplier HealthTap and Samsung announced a strategic partnership to convey digital healthcare to Samsung Good TVs within the U.S.