Samsung Electronics has acquired Seattle-based Xealth, a healthcare integration platform that brings diverse digital health tools and care programme to benefit patients and providers.

Together with its wearable technology, Samsung hopes the acquisition will help advance its transformation into a connected care platform that bridges wellness and medical care bringing a seamless and holistic approach to preventative care to as many people as possible.

Often, 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 synergy between Samsung’s wearable technology and Xealth’s digital health platform can create a link between home health monitoring and clinical decision-making through enhancements to Xealth’s platform, with the provider-patient relationship at the centre of that effort.

Samsung wants to make digital health tools accessible for all through innovation in technology and a device ecosystem, and has been heavily investing in sensor technologies on wearables to follow one’s wellbeing throughout both day and night. The acquisition of Xealth will reinforce this commitment by becoming the cornerstone to advancing Samsung’s care at home vision of connecting and bridging wellness and medical care.

Xealth, spun out of Providence health system, combines multiple digital health technologies into a single user interface and platform, giving healthcare providers a more complete picture of their patients, and enabling real-time monitoring, continuous engagement and smarter decision making.

Xealth acts as an orchestration layer that gives health systems control over how they manage, filter and use data. The company has a network of more than 500 US hospitals, including Advocate Health and Banner Health, and more than 70 digital health partners, which will gain access to Samsung’s platform and enhance the connected-care platform.

“Samsung aims to improve the health of everyone through our extensive platform combining Samsung’s innovative technologies and open collaboration with industry leaders,” said TM Roh, acting head of the device experience division at Samsung (www.samsung.com). “We believe the acquisition of Xealth, with its accumulated expertise and extensive healthcare network, will be an anchor to accelerate Samsung’s efforts to support health systems and digital health partners through a truly connected care.”

Mike McSherry, CEO of Xealth, added: “We are excited to join forces with Samsung. Xealth and Samsung share a common goal to advance the digital health space for truly connected care. Customer health data from wearables can fill in context that is missing to hospitals and bring more data analysis possibilities that were not available just with clinical records. Together with Samsung and our network of healthcare leaders, we will design a bridge between home health monitoring and clinical decision-making, with provider workflow considerations and patient engagement at the core of that effort.”

With Samsung’s capabilities and Xealth’s expertise, more hospitals and providers will be part of Samsung’s health ecosystem, which aims to provide a seamless experience across wellness and medical care and bring hyper-personalised, preventative care to people.

The acquisition is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including receipt of any required regulatory approvals, and is expected to close this year.

Xealth (www.xealth.com) is a digital health company that enables health systems to deploy, integrate and manage digital health tools for improved patient care. The platform allows providers to prescribe and monitor digital health content, apps and services as easily as they would medications. Xealth spun out of the Providence health system in 2017.