By: TaeJong Jay Yang, EVP and Head of Well being R&D Group at Cellular eXperience Enterprise, Samsung Electronics
For years, well being know-how prioritized fixed train, breaking private information and assembly each day bodily targets. Over the previous few years, we’ve seen a definite cultural shift in how customers strategy 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 necessary to them, like wholesome consuming and making certain a superb night time’s relaxation, along with train targets.
With this in thoughts, we’re persevering with to construct on the Galaxy Watch expertise by specializing in one in every 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 targets 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 could have a complete set of controls to handle their well being and health knowledge throughout apps.
Well being Join helps greater than 50 knowledge varieties comparable to train and sleep, in addition to your vitals comparable to coronary heart price. To make sure customers have an entire management of their knowledge, Well being Join supplies centralized privateness controls making it simple to offer permission to the apps they need to share their on-device knowledge with.
And this isn’t only a proof of idea. We’re working alongside Google and different companions to comprehend the total advantages and potential of Well being Join. I’m excited to verify that Samsung Well being can even undertake Well being Join this 12 months. With customers’ permission, this allows app builders to benefit from correct and optimized knowledge measured on Galaxy Look ahead to Samsung Well being of their apps as effectively.
We will’t wait to see how builders use Well being Hook up with carry tangible, holistic well being advantages to Galaxy customers. This new service is an enormous step in direction of empowering customers to expertise the benefits of holistic dwelling.
It’s been a busy 12 months for us on the Samsung Well being R&D workforce, however lastly attending to share what we’ve been engaged on is one in every of my favourite components of my job. In fact, that is only a fraction of every part behind the scenes and we will’t wait to share future updates on software program and {hardware} experiences as we proceed to guide the business with next-generation wearables. Till then, have a cheerful I/O!
