Samsung acquires Xealth, a digital health platform that provides electronic medical record APIs. The battle for wearable devices and the battle for data acquisition are both heating up.
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This podcast discusses significant advancements in digital health and biotechnology, highlighting Samsung's acquisition of Xealth to integrate wearable health data with electronic health records, thereby intensifying the competition among tech giants like Apple and Google in clinical workflow integration. The text also details JMDC's new AI-powered "Pep Up Sleep" service aimed at visualizing sleep quality to reduce healthcare costs and notes research on improving calorie estimation accuracy through contextual metadata for food photos. Furthermore, the sources touch upon a biotech venture focused on infertility treatments and present HAL's recognition as a unique device inducing neuroplasticity for comprehensive therapeutic effects, especially in spinal cord injuries. The combined information illustrates a rapidly evolving landscape where technology is increasingly being leveraged for health monitoring, clinical integration, and innovative treatments.