Samsung acquires Xealth to merge hospital records with data from wearables

Samsung has acquired US company Xealth to combine data drawn from its wearable devices and hospital records.

Xealth promises to make life easier for medicos by providing a platform that lets them access patient information from multiple systems in a single electronic health record. The Seattle company launched in 2017.

Samsung’s announcement of the acquisition laments the fact that “customer health data measured on wellness tools, which keep track of one’s wellness journey every day, and clinical records at hospitals are managed separately, leading to missed insights and delayed care.”

The Korean giant also notes that it has packed its wearables full of sensors that measure users’ health, and suggests “synergy between Samsung’s advanced wearable technology and Xealth’s digital health platform can create a link between home health monitoring and clinical decision-making.”

Neither party to the deal has discussed how much money will change hands to ...