Breakthrough Innovation for Health and Wellness Enthusiasts

By: TaeJong Jay Yang, EVP and Head of Well being R&D Staff at Cellular eXperience Enterprise, Samsung Electronics

For years, well being expertise prioritized fixed train, breaking private data and assembly every day bodily objectives. Over the previous few years, we’ve seen a definite cultural shift in how customers method well being – individuals are redefining the norms on this house and are approaching well being with a extra holistic mindset. It’s much less about energy burned and kilos misplaced, and extra about understanding their our bodies – each bodily and mentally – and prioritizing what’s most vital to them, like wholesome consuming and making certain a superb evening’s relaxation, along with train objectives.

With this in thoughts, we’re persevering with to construct on the Galaxy Watch expertise by specializing in considered one of my greatest priorities right here at Samsung – delivering holistic well being options for our customers. For years, we’ve labored to ship complete well being options that give our customers the instruments they should obtain their objectives and dwell wholesome life.

We’re thrilled that Samsung and Google are working collectively to meet this want with a brand new resolution, Well being Join. Simply introduced at Google I/O, builders now have entry to a single set of APIs that allow the creation of health and well being experiences. With the brand new Well being Join API, customers can have a complete set of controls to handle their well being and health information throughout apps.

Well being Join helps greater than 50 information sorts resembling train and sleep, in addition to your vitals resembling coronary heart price. To make sure customers have an entire management of their information, Well being Join gives centralized privateness controls making it straightforward to offer permission to the apps they wish to share their on-device information with.

And this isn’t only a proof of idea. We’re working alongside Google and different companions to comprehend the complete advantages and potential of Well being Join. I’m excited to verify that Samsung Well being may also undertake Well being Join this yr. With customers’ permission, this permits app builders to make the most of correct and optimized information measured on Galaxy Look ahead to Samsung Well being of their apps as properly.

We are able to’t wait to see how builders use Well being Connect with convey tangible, holistic well being advantages to Galaxy customers.  This new service is an enormous step in the direction of empowering customers to expertise some great benefits of holistic dwelling.

It’s been a busy yr for us on the Samsung Well being R&D workforce, however lastly attending to share what we’ve been engaged on is considered one of my favourite components of my job. In fact, that is only a fraction of all the pieces behind the scenes and we are able to’t wait to share future updates on software program and {hardware} experiences as we proceed to steer the trade with next-generation wearables. Till then, have a contented I/O!