At Galaxy Unpacked July 2026 in London, Samsung Electronics set out its imaginative and prescient for the following chapter of digital well being — a future the place care strikes from reactive therapy towards preventive, personalised and linked experiences, supported by trusted well being innovation and partnerships throughout the healthcare ecosystem.
To discover that imaginative and prescient, Samsung hosted a Health Forum panel, “Rewriting the Rules of Preventive Health.” Moderated by Dr. Hon Pak, Senior Vice President and Head of the Digital Health Team, Mobile eXperience (MX) Business at Samsung Electronics, the session introduced collectively leaders throughout diet, health, medical analysis and AI to look at how know-how can shut the hole between understanding and doing in on a regular basis well being.
The Paradox — and the “Missing Miles” of Health
Opening the dialogue, Dr. Pak described a paradox on the coronary heart of contemporary well being: innovation and know-how at present has been transformational and accelerating, but continual illness continues to rise all over the world.
“We live in the most measured era in human history — 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’t resulted in better health.”
He framed the disconnect as two “missing miles.” The first mile is detection and monitoring: a lot of what shapes our well being occurs outdoors the clinic and till just lately, steady monitoring was neither out there nor linked to the doctor. The final mile is motion: even after a analysis and a care plan, it’s the particular person who has to behave day after day — and life is busy and alter is difficult.
Samsung, Dr. Pak argued, is uniquely positioned to shut each gaps. With know-how that stays with folks all through their each day lives — throughout wearables, cellphones and a linked ecosystem — Samsung can perceive not simply uncooked biometric numbers, however the context behind them.
“We don’t just see a number — we see what’s around it: whether this is a moment you’re 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.”
But no single firm can do that alone. That, he stated, is why Samsung is constructing Connected Care along with companions — closing the primary and final mile to scale prevention, with AI because the enabler throughout each. He launched the three focus areas that might construction the dialog: on a regular basis habits, medical credibility and privateness and superior AI and analysis.
Everyday Behavior: Closing the Last Mile on the Dinner Table and the Gym
Diet and train are two of the most important levers on long-term well being — and two of essentially the most inside our management. They are additionally, Dr. Pak famous, the place the hole between understanding and doing is widest.
Kartik Poria, Head of Product at Samsung Food, positioned that hole in a second everybody acknowledges.
“It’s Tuesday, six o’clock. You’re tired, you’re staring into the fridge and everything you know about eating well loses to whatever’s quickest. That moment is what we’re going after — because what you eat, day after day, is one of the biggest levers we have on preventing chronic disease.”
He described how Samsung Health and Samsung Food are coming collectively to sort out two halves of the identical drawback: Samsung Health surfaces what is going on beneath the floor — indicators equivalent to meal logs, BMI, the Antioxidant Index and the AGEs Index — whereas Samsung Food’s international recipe library facilitates meal planning and its meals intelligence mirror how folks truly prefer to eat. Sitting on high is a diet expertise grounded in habits change science fairly than monitoring alone — studying a…
