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<\/p>\nAt Galaxy Unpacked July 2026 in London, Samsung Electronics set out its vision for the next chapter of digital health \u2014 a future where care moves from reactive treatment toward preventive, personalized and connected experiences, supported by trusted health innovation and partnerships across the healthcare ecosystem.<\/p>\n
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To explore that vision, Samsung hosted a Health Forum panel, \u201cRewriting the Rules of Preventive Health.\u201d Moderated by Dr. Hon Pak, Senior Vice President and Head of the Digital Health Team, Mobile eXperience (MX) Business at Samsung Electronics, the session brought together leaders across nutrition, fitness, clinical research and AI to examine how technology can close the gap between knowing and doing in everyday health.<\/p>\n
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\u25b2 (From left) Ot\u00e1vio Penatti, Kevin Duffy, Moderator Dr. Hon Pak. Rohit Ail and Kartik Poria<\/p>\n
The Paradox \u2014 and the \u201cMissing Miles\u201d of Health<\/p>\n
Opening the discussion, Dr. Pak described a paradox at the heart of modern health: innovation and technology today has been transformational and accelerating, yet chronic disease continues to rise around the world.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe live in the most measured era in human history \u2014 billions of people track their sleep, their stress, their heart rate every single day. And yet chronic disease keeps rising. More data, it turns out, hasn\u2019t resulted in better health.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He framed the disconnect as two \u201cmissing miles.\u201d The first mile is detection and monitoring: much of what shapes our health happens outside the clinic and until recently, continuous monitoring was neither available nor connected to the physician. The last mile is action: even after a diagnosis and a care plan, it is the individual who has to act day after day \u2014 and life is busy and change is hard.<\/p>\n
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\u25b2 Dr. Hon Pak<\/p>\n
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Samsung, Dr. Pak argued, is uniquely positioned to close both gaps. Samsung, Dr. Pak argued, is uniquely positioned to close both gaps. With technology that stays with people throughout their daily lives \u2014 across wearables, mobile phones and a connected ecosystem \u2014 Samsung can understand not just raw biometric numbers, but the context behind them.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe don\u2019t just see a number \u2014 we see what\u2019s around it: whether this is a moment you\u2019re ready to change something or a moment you need a bit of support. Being there, at the point where personal decisions actually get made, is hard for a hospital or any other company to measure or act upon.\u201d<\/p>\n
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But no single company can do this alone. That, he said, is why Samsung is building Connected Care together with partners \u2014 closing the first and last mile to scale prevention, with AI as the enabler across both. He introduced the three focus areas that would structure the conversation: everyday behavior, clinical credibility and privacy and advanced AI and research.<\/p>\n
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Everyday Behavior: Closing the Last Mile at the Dinner Table and the Gym<\/p>\n
Diet and exercise are two of the biggest levers on long-term health \u2014 and two of the most within our control. They are also, Dr. Pak noted, where the gap between knowing and doing is widest.<\/p>\n
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Kartik Poria, Head of Product at Samsung Food, located that gap in a moment everyone recognizes.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s Tuesday, six o\u2019clock. You\u2019re tired, you\u2019re staring into the fridge and everything you know about eating well loses to whatever\u2019s quickest. That moment is what we\u2019re going after \u2014 because what you eat, day after day, is one of the biggest levers we have on preventing chronic disease.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He described how Samsung Health and Samsung Food are coming together to tackle two halves of the same problem: Samsung Health surfaces what is happening beneath the surface \u2014 indicators such as meal logs, BMI, the Antioxidant Index and the AGEs Index \u2014 while Samsung Food\u2019s global recipe library facilitates meal planning and its food intelligence reflect how people actually like to eat. Sitting on top is a nutrition experience grounded in behavior change science rather than tracking alone \u2014 learning a person\u2019s habits and working with them so the healthier pattern becomes the easier one.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe\u2019re not adding another thing to manage \u2014 we\u2019re making the healthy choice the easy one, for the night you\u2019ve got the energy to cook and the night you don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u25b2 Kartik Poria from Samsung Food<\/p>\n
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Turning to movement, Kevin Duffy, CEO of iFIT, described exercise as foundational to both physical and mental wellbeing and explained how iFIT\u2019s expert-led programs are becoming more accessible through Samsung Health.<\/p>\n
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\u201cExercise is vital for both physical and mental wellbeing \u2014 cardiovascular health, strength, mobility, sleep quality, stress management.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Through Samsung Health, users can discover and subscribe to iFIT\u2019s premium fitness programs, while iFIT workouts integrate with Galaxy Watch so users can track key metrics during guided sessions. With Fitness Index, they receive a holistic view of their physical fitness in a single, easy-to-understand score, with personalized recommendations. Looking ahead, Duffy pointed to Samsung\u2019s Health Assistant as a way to bring a user\u2019s Fitness Index, goals and activity history together to surface the most relevant workout at the right moment.<\/p>\n
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\u201cExercise is not just about being active \u2014 it\u2019s about understanding your body, building sustainable habits and having the right guidance at the right time. By combining iFIT\u2019s expert-led experiences with Samsung Health\u2019s connected insights, we can help more people make movement a meaningful part of their everyday lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u25b2 Kevin Duffy from iFIT<\/p>\n
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But content and insights alone, Dr. Pak noted, don\u2019t close the last mile. The harder question is how to move from engagement to activation. Samsung designs for real life, recognizing that people slip and miss goals most of the time \u2014 and that those moments are precisely when timely, well-contextualized support matters most.<\/p>\n
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The real measure, he argued, is not how often the system nudges someone, but how many healthy actions actually happen \u2014 a doctor\u2019s low-salt advice quietly showing up as items in a grocery cart or a workout that meets a person where they actually are that day. Poria added that this is the true shift: from nudging people to changing the choice in front of them.<\/p>\n
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Clinical Credibility and Privacy: Trust Earned Through Evidence<\/p>\n
Dr. Pak turned next to the question of trust \u2014 noting that wearable data is now something most clinicians have seen, but far fewer have been able to build into their day-to-day care. Closing that gap, he said, is a matter of evidence, workflow and trust.<\/p>\n
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Rohit Ail, Head of the Technology Incubation Lab at Samsung R&D Institute UK (SRUK), spoke to how his team works to generate clinical evidence in real-world settings.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOur goal is to meet the standards expected by clinicians, researchers and regulatory bodies and that means generating evidence in real-world clinical environments. This commitment builds on Samsung\u2019s growing body of clinical research and validation evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He referenced ongoing collaborations across Europe, including partnerships with the NHS and clinical validation studies with leading hospitals. With San Cecilio University Hospital in Spain and Gemelli in Italy, Samsung is working on identifying and managing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk using AI and decision-support technologies; with Fondazione IRCCS in Italy, the focus is on understanding and addressing the late effects faced by adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors through AI-based digital phenotyping and a non-invasive, holistic approach.<\/p>\n
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On privacy, Ail noted that Samsung considers user data to belong to the user, with Samsung acting as custodian.<\/p>\n
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\u201cTrust begins with protecting users\u2019 data. Samsung takes a three-layer approach: Samsung Knox for device-level security, GDPR-compliant infrastructure and alignment with the European Health Data Space framework.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He added that SRUK has also developed a Decentralized Clinical Trial framework, in which participant identities remain under the control of healthcare organizations and data is pseudonymized from the outset.<\/p>\n
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\u25b2 Rohit Ail from Samsung R&D Institute UK<\/p>\n
Advanced AI and Research: Reading the Body\u2019s Signals<\/p>\n
If everyday reach and clinical trust are two of the three pillars, intelligence is what binds them together. Dr. Pak introduced foundation models as a genuine turning point \u2014 a shift from population averages to something truly personal.<\/p>\n
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Ot\u00e1vio Penatti, Head of the Health AI R&D Team at Samsung R&D Institute Brazil (SRBR), explained what a foundation model for health actually means.<\/p>\n
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\u201cA health foundation model is an AI model that uses self-supervised learning to learn meaningful features from unlabeled biosignal data. At Samsung, we are advancing health foundation model research across multiple global research teams, combining expertise in biosignal intelligence, wearable AI and personalized health insights. Building on the success of large language models, we can now interpret complex biosignals \u2014 such as ECG, ACC and PPG \u2014 not as isolated data points, but as a structured biological language. These signals can be measured through wearable devices in everyday situations and by applying foundation models to understand these biological patterns, we have the potential to provide more accurate predictions and continuous, personalized health insights.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u25b2 Ot\u00e1vio Penatti from Samsung R&D Institute Brazil<\/p>\n
Three Focus Areas, One Goal<\/p>\n
To close, Dr. Pak asked each panelist for a one-sentence vision of Connected Care in the era of AI five years from now.<\/p>\n
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Kartik Poria (Samsung Food): \u201cIn five years, eating well won\u2019t run on willpower \u2014 it\u2019ll feel like having a chef and a dietitian in your pocket, turning what your body needs into what\u2019s for dinner, day after day.\u201d
\nKevin Duffy (iFIT): \u201cA coach that knows your body and adapts every workout to who you are that day.\u201d
\nRohit Ail (SRUK): \u201cCare that clinicians trust and patients control \u2014 evidence-based and private by design.\u201d
\nOt\u00e1vio Penatti (SRBR): \u201cAI that understands the body\u2019s language and acts before problems begin.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Dr. Pak closed by tying the threads together: everyday behavior, clinical trust and personal AI \u2014 three focus areas, one goal of closing the first and last mile to scale prevention while meeting people where they are. \u201cThe future of health is connected, trusted and proactive \u2014 and it\u2019s a road we\u2019re glad to be traveling together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Galaxy Unpacked July 2026 in London, Samsung Electronics set out its vision for the next chapter of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}