Technology giant Samsung launched the Samsung Health Stack 1.0, an open-source project designed to aid digital health researchers.
The tool allows researchers to build new digital health solutions on the Android and Wear OS operating systems. The stack includes a backend web portal designed to make digital health development easier, according to an April 19 Samsung news release.
"The Samsung Health Stack, which aims to make it easier and safer to acquire digital health data, will lower the barriers between medical researchers and digital technology experts, serving as a foundation for innovation in the digital health industry," Yunsu Lee, vice president and head of the data intelligence team at Samsung Electronics, said in the release. "By promoting the development of digital health services, we hope to ultimately improve the quality of life for people around the world. We also hope that the Samsung Health Stack, being an open-source project, will be helpful to many people in the field, and we welcome the participation of interested developers and researchers."