Samsung has a large ecosystem of applications and services with which it accompanies both its mobiles, Samsung Galaxylike their smart watches and soon the ring which will probably see the light of day in the Unpacked which already has a date.
One of them is Samsung Healthits health-focused app, and it has been updated from time to time to support new features. Now, as we read in Android Authority, it will worry about our medications, offering a scan and some advice on the interaction between them.
Samsung Health isn’t just for transferring information from wearable devices
Typically, the Samsung Health app is the nerve center to inform us about our health, especially if we have a wearable like the Galaxy Watch: it is the service that collects and synchronizes all the data that these devices are capable of measuring.
However, the Korean firm wants to continue expanding its possibilities, this time with a utility function For anyone who takes medication daily. Also if you take medication occasionally. There are apps that remind us when the next shot will be, although Samsung Health will go further.
As they discovered on Android Authority, which revealed a future version of the application, it will have two new functions: drug analysis and drug-allergy interaction. Because yes, it will rely on the camera to analyze certain data such as the name, the concentration (in mg) and the form.
Galaxy announced medication tracking for its app late last year, so these two features add to what was already there. It is now able to provide advice in addition to tracking prescribed medications, it also adds general descriptions and possible side effects
During this announcement, he mentioned that medication monitoring would inform us of side effects and interactions between medications and certain foods such as alcohol. It seems that they will arrive soon, without us knowing it yet when is the update expected with these scanning functions.
The source confirms that, in the same way, Health will allow us to choose between some common allergies as well as add ours that do not appear, in this way, when we have to take a new medication, we will be notified in case where they exist. negative interactions.
Via | Android Authority
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