Digital Health

Build, incubate and launch consumer-oriented health product concepts

Health and wellbeing are about building and maintaining habits that are good for mind and body, for individuals and communities. Our Digital Health teams collaborate with top hospitals, healthcare-industry partners, and universities to transform how healthcare is delivered and good health sustained. We use design thinking to address some of healthcare’s toughest challenges, from improving care and producing better outcomes, to reducing costs and expanding access.

 

Focusing on wearable, mobile, and cloud-based form factors, our multi-disciplinary team develops innovative technologies that we then turn into groundbreaking commercial products to support clinicians, patients, and consumers. We use advanced sensor technology to capture physiologic responses and make use of our AI/ML framework to build algorithms that detect and trigger alerts for specific health conditions. We employ data analytics to supplement clinical care and facilitate remote patient monitoring, thereby helping patients make behavioral changes that improve their health and daily lives.

 

Our portfolio of digital-health solutions are important tools in helping clinicians and their patients monitor and manage serious health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease, and cancer; as wells chronic illnesses including diabetes, hypertension, depression, sleep disorders, and obesity.

 

Our work encompasses the entire range of processes, from ideating, developing, and incubating; to designing and delivering market-ready products; to supporting and evolving currently released products. Our expertise in program management, engineering, QA, regulatory affairs and compliance, clinical validation, and user research and human factors study—supported by our award-winning designers—allows us to move and adapt quickly.

OUR RESEARCH FOCUSES

Health Solution Innovation

Build strategic partnership; develop software as a medical device; create innovation pipeline from concept to product launch.

Health Solution Innovation

Build strategic partnership; develop software as a medical device; create innovation pipeline from concept to product launch.

Advanced Health Research

At the forefront of AI/ML to develop clinically explainable digital bio-markers for various health conditions and severity.

Advanced Health Research

At the forefront of AI/ML to develop clinically explainable digital bio-markers for various health conditions and severity.

Health R&D Platform

Develop and evolve microservice framework, elastic cloud architecture, HIPAA compliant health R&D platform. 

Health R&D Platform

Develop and evolve microservice framework, elastic cloud architecture, HIPAA compliant health R&D platform. 

Commercialization & Expansion

Translate technology into commercial products; add new and enhance existing app features; expand into new markets.

Product Commercialization & Expansion

Translate technology into commercial products; add new and enhance existing app features; expand into new markets.

Corp. Wellness & Digital Insurance

Increase wearable sales via SDK integration.

Corporate Wellness & Digital Insurance

Increase wearable sales via SDK integration.

Product Support & Operations

Evolve health content and services for Samsung Health platform.

Product Support & Operations

Evolve health content and services for Samsung Health platform.

How Our Research is Impacting Products

Lung Health

Clinically explainable digital bio-markers creation

AI and acoustic based assessment and prediction solution to transform how lung health is delivered. Leverage lung health digital bio-markers to deliver digital pulmonary rehab/maintenance program that can help to improve care outcome, reduce cost and decrease readmissions. COPD is the third most common cause of disease in US.

Impact
  • 40% reduction of COPD costs by preventing complications, exacerbations, and hospitalizations
  • Limit progression of disease to severe stages, assist with rehab and lifelong maintenance

Heart Health

Home-based Cardiac Rehab

Each year, more than 800,000 Americans die from cardiovascular disease, accounting for 1 out of every 3 deaths. Samsung’s Heartwise is a clinician-supervised program that includes exercise, medication monitoring, and education on heart-healthy living, to help patients recover sooner and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Impact
  • 2% readmission vs. traditional 10-15%
  • 87% graduation vs. traditional 25%-50%

My BP Lab

BP and Stress monitoring

Research program that measures people’s emotions & stress, and how their body responds to the stress. 1 of 3 US adults (75 million people) have high blood pressure. This research program is targeted to help user monitor BP and stress level from Samsung watch and obtain personalized insights to improve health.

Key achievements
  • Enrolled 140K+ users from 8 countries in research program to measure emotions and the body’s response to stress
  • Updated research program to cover stress, cognitive and sleep assessments, and intervention modules
  • Conducted clinical and human factors studies to validate and iterate design of commercial-release product
  • Qualified Samsung for FDA’s Pre-Cert Pilot Program

My Heart Lab

Atrial fibrillation detection, burden assessment, and validation

Research program that uses PPG to enable AI/ML-based passive-AFib detection and burden assessment and ECG to actively validate instances of AFib.  Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common form of irregular heartbeat.  Estimates put the number of Americans with AFib at between 2.7 and 6.1 million people.

Key achievements
  • Built PPG algorithm to detect arrhythmia with high sensitivity and specificity (>90%)
  • Enabled ECG feature on Galaxy Watch Active 2

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