Your Galaxy Watch is not only a great fitness resource, but it’s also really good for keeping tabs on your health. And thanks to a recent Samsung acquisition, it might be about to become a lot more useful.

Samsung announced an agreement to acquire Xealth, a Seattle-based digital health platform, further increasing Samsung’s footprint in the health sector. The terms of the deal, which is expected to close by the end of 2025 pending regulatory approval, were not disclosed. In case you’re not familiar, Xealth, which spun out of the Providence health system, provides a platform that allows clinicians to prescribe and monitor digital health tools, content, and services for their patients directly within their existing electronic health record (EHR) workflows. This enables healthcare providers to manage and scale digital care programs, from remote patient monitoring to distributing educational materials and therapeutic applications. The platform is currently utilized by over 500 US hospitals and has more than 70 digital health solution partners.

I know you’re asking the question, though—what does this mean for you? Samsung hasn’t talked in detail about what this will mean for users just yet. But we can guess some things from the original press release. Wearables are mentioned, though not specific ones, and it’s mentioned that health data gathered from Samsung’s wearables—tracking metrics like activity levels, sleep patterns, and heart rate—could be integrated with a patient’s formal medical records through the Xealth platform. This can create a continuous feedback loop, providing clinicians with a more comprehensive view of a patient’s health and lifestyle outside of the hospital walls.

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Samsung has stated that the acquisition will be a cornerstone of its “care at home” vision, and it will probably provide useful insights for physicians when patients need to go in for follow-up appointments. Samsung’s watches have advanced sensors for health tracking, and the Samsung Health platform is actually pretty good—the acquisition seems to be with the purpose of making that data useful and actionable for actual doctors looking into your health history.

Right now, we won’t see any changes to our wearables, and they probably won’t matter much for hospital visits just yet. But within a few months, we’ll probably know what this acquisition means in terms of health tracking for everyone. We’ll have to wait and see, though. On paper, it has the potential to be tremendously useful, especially if you already have a Samsung smartwatch that you use for keeping tabs on your health.

Source: Samsung via Engadget