Samsung unveils plans for a new "digital health ecosystem" with universities and academic hospitals during the Korean tech giant's annual developer conference, SDC23.

The company's yearly event kicked off with a keynote that was live streamed on YouTube, and it revealed that it would be partnering with leading universities and academic hospitals. This is part of efforts to enhance Samsung's digital health ecosystem through collaborations with experts coming from those institutions.

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The partnership will include the sharing of existing research between said institutions and Samsung itself as well as new research to understand better how various aspects of a person's life can affect their health and better predict risk factors that can lead to serious diseases, including ones that are related to the heart.

The Korean tech giant's smartwatches, similar to those from other manufacturers, enable users to track their sleeping habits and offer advice on fixing issues affecting their sleep quality.

Additionally, through a partnership with the MIT Media Lab, Samsung hopes to "investigate more unique sleep profiles, to better personalize sleep interventions for users, and to explore better models for sleep regularity, homeostasis, and circadian rhythm," as per Sam Mobile.

The company will also be working with Harvard's Brigham & Women's Hospital to gain insights on how to help users develop higher resilience against things that stress them out during their day-to-day lives.

Its partnership with Tulane University School of Medicine will instead see Samsung's BioActive Sensor tech and machine learning be used to understand the indicators of cardiovascular diseases more deeply.

The data and research information gathered from these partnerships will later be used to enhance Samsung's wearable products' health and fitness tracking capabilities. These include the company's smartwatches and the upcoming Galaxy smart ring. However, it might take a while to observe any major breakthroughs or improvements.

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Advancing Technologies

On top of the digital health ecosystem plans, Samsung also revealed a range of security innovations across its ecosystem of products and services. This comes with the release of One UI 6 and the innovations include updates to Samsung Knox Matrix with passkeys and end-to-end encryption for backed-up and restored Samsung Cloud data, according to the Samsung Newsroom.

The new advancements are designed for an era of hyperconnectivity to ensure that security is not compromised when multiple devices connect and share information. Samsung highlighted how these innovations will push the tech industry forward and empower users with more ways to do what they do safely.

During SDC23, the Korean tech giant also announced the expansion of Tizen, Samsung's operating system, to power more devices, including home appliances with a 7-inch screen. Additionally, on-device AI and the Home AI Edge Hub will enhance the Tizen experience.

Using the Home AI Edge Hub, appliances with lower computing power can request AI services from devices with stronger computing resources, which makes all devices in the home intelligent, said VentureBeat.

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