Samsung Electronics is expanding the Galaxy Watch’s health management features from individuals to families by adding family profiles to Samsung Health and linking Samsung accounts. Users can selectively share metrics such as steps, sleep, heart rate, blood pressure and blood glucose so relatives can monitor changes and respond. Samsung also highlighted heart-health scoring and sleep-time vital signs tracking, and cited regulatory approvals and cases where alerts prompted medical care.

Samsung Electronics will directly link biometric data collected via its wearable devices to clinical trials for new drug development. The company said it has signed a partnership with Germany-based digital clinical trial specialist Alcedis to use health data collected by Galaxy Watch in clinical research. The partners aim to convert real-world biometric data into clinical metrics to assess drug efficacy and safety and cooperate across the full clinical research process.