Samsung Health is getting smarter than ever with its new AI assistant. Samsung Health Assistant is now available in beta for eligible users in the United States. Built directly into Samsung Health, the chat assistant can analyze information collected across the app and answer personalized questions about the user’s health and well-being.
Your health charts are talking now
Health Assistant draws on Samsung Health’s five wellness areas: sleep, activity, nutrition, alertness, and vital signs. It can identify relationships between those areas, highlight patterns that may be hard to see, and explain how one part of a user’s behavior can influence another.
This means it can sift through the mountains of data generated by your Galaxy Watch or Galaxy Ring and present it to you in an easy-to-understand way. Rather than opening a separate screen for sleep, exercise, and other activities, users can simply ask questions and receive guidance based on the combined image. Samsung adds that their recommendations are verified by certified doctors and health coaches.
Energy Score still requires activity, sleep, and overnight heart rate data collected through a compatible Galaxy Watch or Galaxy Ring. The assistant itself can also integrate information entered manually or stored within Samsung Health, including nutrition and cognitive data.
Future versions can be more personal. Samsung plans to use the Personal Data Engine to account for information such as calendar events, routines, and individual preferences. It also explores goal-based training and services such as weight management.
Samsung is joining the increasingly crowded AI health race
Samsung describes Health Assistant as the first “fully integrated” AI-powered personal health assistant. So it competes with other similar services like Google Health Coach, which combines Fitbit or Pixel Watch data with sleep, fitness, nutrition, and medical record information. The program relies on Gemini to answer questions and create personalized plans, but access requires a $9.99 monthly Google Health Premium subscription.
Another great example is Oura Advisor, which uses biometric information and long-term trends collected by the Oura Ring to provide personalized answers about sleep, activity, fitness, and fitness. Requires active Oura membership. However, Samsung has not announced that Health Assistant will eventually require payment or revealed which Galaxy devices are eligible for the current beta. It’s also unclear when and if the feature will roll out beyond the US.
The company has made it clear that the feature will not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendations. It’s just here to make understanding health trends easier.
