Post by Leonard Rinser 🤘🏼

Perplexity just launched Perplexity Health. The AI search engine now connects to your medical records, your wearables, and your lab results. This is not a chatbot answering generic health questions. This is a search engine that knows YOUR body. Here is what happened: Perplexity Health launched with connectors for Apple Health, electronic health records from over 1.7 million care providers, Fitbit, Ultrahuman, Withings, Clue, and more. OURA and Function are coming soon. All powered by partners like b.well and Terra API. What it does: → Ask a health question and the answer draws from your medical records, lab results, and wearable data at once → A question about resting heart rate factors in your recent activity, your cardiac history, and your latest bloodwork → Personalized dashboard tracking biomarkers and activity data over time → Every answer includes citations linked directly to medical literature, clinical guidelines and peer-reviewed journals → Perplexity Computer can build custom marathon training protocols from your fitness data, generate visit-prep summaries for doctor appointments, or create personalized nutrition plans The privacy setup: → Encrypted in transit and at rest → Strict access controls → Health data never used to train AI models → Never sold to third parties → You can disconnect sources and delete data at any time They also announced a Health Advisory Board, physicians, researchers, and health tech leaders pressure-testing product decisions and clinical safeguards. Rolling out to Pro and Max users in the U.S. first. Now here is what makes this interesting. Perplexity is not a hardware company. It does not make a wearable. It does not own a hospital network. It does not have a pharmacy. But it has something the others do not: the best citation engine in AI. Every health answer comes with sources you can actually read. Not a black box. Not "trust the algorithm." Verifiable medical literature, linked directly. In a space where trust is everything, that is a real differentiator. b.well is quietly becoming an important health data backbone for the AI industry. The pattern keeps repeating: → Microsoft Copilot Health — 50,000+ hospital integrations → Amazon Health AI — One Medical, Cleveland Clinic, Amazon Pharmacy → OpenAI — ChatGPT Health, Torch acquisition → Anthropic — HIPAA-ready enterprise health tooling → Now Perplexity — search-first, citation-backed, multi-source health intelligence Six months ago, none of these products existed. Now every major AI company has a health product. The race is not slowing down. It is accelerating. Perplexity's bet: you do not need to own the wearable or the hospital. You need to be the best at answering the question and proving your answer is right. Source and visual: perplexity website