The AI search company has launched a suite of health data connectors, linking Apple Health, wearables, and electronic health records, becoming the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health after OpenAI.
Consumer health AI is rapidly evolving, and Perplexity has now officially entered the field with Perplexity Health. This suite of data connectors unifies a user’s electronic health records, wearable device data, and lab results, providing personalized answers to health queries.
Perplexity Health is the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health, following OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health in January 2026. Microsoft introduced Copilot Health just a week prior on March 12.
The foundation of Perplexity Health is based on Perplexity Computer, the company’s AI platform for autonomous tasks. Initially, the product connects to Apple Health on iOS, as well as to wearables and health apps like Fitbit, Ultrahuman, and Withings via Terra API, a unified health and fitness data platform.
Electronic health records are accessed through b.well Connected Health, a HIPAA-compliant platform announced as a partner in a simultaneous press release. Future integrations with Oura and Function are anticipated.
The b.well partnership significantly enhances the infrastructure. According to b.well, its network connects to over 2.4 million providers and more than 350 health plans and labs nationwide.
Kristen Valdes, Founder and CEO of b.well, highlights the partnership’s logic: AI health queries are prevalent, but it’s critical that answers are grounded in a person’s actual medical history rather than general population data.
The product aims to address the issue of fragmented health data, where lab results, prescriptions, and fitness data are stored separately, asserting that comprehensive answers require integrated data. For instance, a question about resting heart rate could utilize recent activity data, cardiac history, and latest bloodwork simultaneously.
The personalized dashboard tracks biomarker trends and activity over time. Perplexity Computer uses connected data to provide outputs like pre-appointment visit summaries, personalized nutrition plans, and marathon training protocols. Responses are sourced from clinical guidelines and peer-reviewed journals, with citations linked to the original material.
To handle the clinical risks, Perplexity is introducing a Health Advisory Board comprising physicians, researchers, and health technology leaders. Their role is to assess product decisions, content quality, and clinical safeguards per evidence-based medicine standards.
Perplexity Health is not a diagnostic tool but offers educational health information to help users understand their data and prepare for discussions with clinicians, not replace professional medical advice.
Regarding privacy, the company states that health data is encrypted during transmission and while stored, subject to strict access controls, never used for AI model training, and never sold to third parties. Users can disconnect or delete their data at any time.
This approach is similar to pledges made by OpenAI and Microsoft for their health products, though independent verification of these claims is limited. A Washington Post investigation noted that ChatGPT sometimes provided health information not supported by the data, highlighting a potential issue if the AI model itself is unreliable.
Perplexity Health will be available to Pro and Max subscribers in the United States shortly, initially on iOS and the web at perplexity.ai/health. Wider availability across other subscription tiers and regions is anticipated in the future. The product follows Perplexity Finance, which enabled connected brokerage account access via Plaid, as another major vertical utilizing the Perplexity Computer infrastructure.