AI search company Apple Health is launching a suite of health data connectors that connect wearables and electronic health records, making it the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health after OpenAI.
Consumer health AI has become the fastest-moving product category of the year, and Thursday Perplexity entered the race properly. The company launched Perplexity Health, a suite of data aggregators that bring together a user’s electronic health records, wearable device data and lab results, then use that combined picture to personalize answers to health questions.
It is the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health after OpenAI ChatGPT Health In January 2026. Microsoft launched Copilot Health just a week ago on March 12th.
Perplexity Health’s architecture sits on top of Perplexity Computer, the company’s AI agent platform for autonomous tasks. At launch, the product connects to Apple Health on iOS and wearables and wellness apps including Fitbit, Ultrahuman and Withings through the Terra API, a unified health and fitness data platform.
Electronic health records are accessed through b.well Connected Health, Perplexity’s HIPAA-compliant platform. Integrations with Oura and Function are expected soon.
The b.well partnership is a more important part of the infrastructure. According to b.well’s own announcement, the company’s network connects to more than 2.4 million providers and more than 350 health plans and laboratories in the United States.
Kristen Valdes, founder and CEO of b.well, described the rationale for the partnership simply: AI health questions are already happening at scale; the question is whether the answers are based on the person’s actual medical history or general population data.
The essence of the product is that health data is broken down structurally, with lab results in one portal, prescriptions in another, fitness data in a third, and meaningful answers required all at once. For example, a question about resting heart rate can also be based on recent activity data, cardiac history, and most recent blood work.
A customizable dashboard tracks trends in biomarkers and activity over time, and the Confusion Computer can use related data to generate results, including pre-meeting visit summaries, personalized nutrition plans and marathon training protocols. Answers are drawn from clinical guidelines and peer-reviewed journals, with citations linked to the source material.
To manage the apparent clinical risk of this category, Perplexity is teaming up with a Healthcare Advisory Board of physicians, researchers and health technology leaders.
The company makes it clear that Perplexity Health is not a diagnostic tool: it is not positioned as a substitute for professional medical advice, but as educational health information that helps users understand their data and prepare for conversations with clinicians.
On privacy, the company says health data is encrypted in transit and at rest, subject to strict access controls, never used to train AI models, and never sold to third parties. Users can disconnect any data source or delete their data at any time.
The framework echoes similar promises from OpenAI and Microsoft for their respective health products, though independent research into any of these claims remains limited. A Washington Post investigation earlier this year found that ChatGPT was liable to report health information that was not supported by the data it provided, a major problem that no data link could address if the underlying model was unreliable.
Perplexity Health will initially roll out to Pro and Max subscribers in the US on iOS and on the web in the coming weeks. confusion.ai/health. Broader availability across other subscriber tiers and geographies is expected over time. The product follows Perplexity Finance, a second major vertical built around the same Perplexity Computer infrastructure, which uses Plaid to give users access to connected brokerage accounts.
