Samsung, Mass General Brigham partner on digital health

Mass General Brigham, based in Somerville, Massachusetts, is collaborating with Samsung on an innovative digital health initiative. Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston intends to utilise biometric data collected from the Samsung Galaxy Watch to explore the relationship between resilience, frailty, and personalised health profiles for patients.

Dr. Bruce Levy, Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, stated, "Our partnership with Samsung aims to quantify concepts like resilience and frailty and examine how various physiological systems interconnect. We aim to provide individuals with practical insights to enhance their resilience to stressors, using wearable sensor technology to track their unique recovery or decline patterns."

In addition to its collaboration with Mass General Brigham, Samsung is working with Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans to predict hospitalisation risk for cardiovascular patients using the Galaxy Watch's BioActive sensor. 

Samsung is also partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab in Cambridge to enhance wearable sleep-tracking technology.