The AI search company launches a suite of health data connectors, linking Apple Health, 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 year’s fastest-moving product category, and on Thursday Perplexity entered the race properly. The company launched Perplexity Health, a suite of data connectors that pulls together a user’s electronic health records, wearable device data, and lab results into a single place, then uses that combined picture to personalise answers to health questions.
It is the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health, following OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health in January 2026. Microsoft launched Copilot Health just one week ago, on 12 March.
The architecture of Perplexity Health 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 to wearables and health apps including Fitbit, Ultrahuman, and Withings via Terra API, a unified health and fitness data platform.
Electronic health records are pulled through b.well Connected Health, a HIPAA-compliant platform Perplexity announced as a partner in a simultaneous press release. Integrations with Oura and Function are expected soon.
The b.well partnership is the more substantive piece 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 labs across the United States.
Kristen Valdes, Founder and CEO of b.well, described the logic of the partnership simply: AI health questions are already happening at scale; the question is whether the answers are grounded in a person’s actual medical history or generic population data.
The product’s pitch is that health data is structurally fragmented, lab results in one portal, prescriptions in another, fitness data in a third, and that meaningful answers require all of it at once. A question about resting heart rate, for example, could draw on recent activity data, cardiac history, and the most recent bloodwork simultaneously.
The personalisable dashboard tracks trends in biomarkers and activity over time, and Perplexity Computer can use the connected data to generate outputs including pre-appointment visit summaries, personalised nutrition plans, and marathon training protocols. Responses draw from clinical guidelines and peer-reviewed journals, with citations linked to source material.
To manage the obvious clinical risk of this category, Perplexity is launching alongside a Health Advisory Board of physicians, researchers, and health technology leaders, whose stated role is to pressure-test product decisions, content quality, and clinical safeguards against evidence-based medicine standards.
The company is explicit that Perplexity Health is not a diagnostic tool: it is positioned as educational health information that helps users understand their data and prepare for conversations with clinicians, not as a substitute for professional medical advice.
On privacy, the company states that 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 information at any time.
The framing mirrors similar pledges from OpenAI and Microsoft for their respective health products, though independent scrutiny of any of these claims remains limited. A Washington Post investigation earlier this year found that ChatGPT was liable to report health information not supported by the data it was given, a baseline problem that no amount of data connectivity resolves if the underlying model is unreliable.
Perplexity Health is rolling out to Pro and Max subscribers in the United States over the coming weeks, initially on iOS and on the web at perplexity.ai/health. Broader availability across other subscriber tiers and geographies is expected in time. The product follows Perplexity Finance, which used Plaid to give users connected brokerage account access, as a second major vertical built around the same Perplexity Computer infrastructure.
