Annual event recognizes top health solutions, bringing together industry leaders from around the world
, /PRNewswire/ — Garmin (NYSE: GRMN) today announced the recipients of the 2026 Garmin Health Awards, recognizing groundbreaking digital health solutions. Presented at the conclusion of the annual Garmin Health Summit in Bangkok, the awards honor innovators who successfully utilize the Garmin Health Connected Ecosystem (GHCE), which includes Garmin wearables and the Garmin Health API and SDKs, to improve health outcomes.
“As high-quality data from wearables becomes increasingly important for personalized feedback and customizable approaches to health and wellness, our Awards applicants, finalists and winners continue to showcase incredible thought leadership and vision as they reimagine industries like research, healthcare, insurance and many others. Thank you to everyone who joined us at this year’s Summit and made it such an impactful and inspiring event.”
–Susan Lyman, Garmin Vice President of Consumer Sales and Marketing
Here are the 2026 Garmin Health Awards honorees:
Expert’s Choice – Montefiore Einstein, a U.S.-based cancer center, leveraged the GHCE in prospective trials for patients with cancer receiving radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy, demonstrating the feasibility of monitoring daily activity with wearables. Its researchers were the first to show data from wearables can be collected passively before treatment to identify patients likely to struggle with therapy.
People’s Choice – HeraMED is an Australian publicly listed company transforming women’s health through personalized, continuous, AI-enabled care—empowering women across pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and chronic conditions within a unified, scalable, data-driven platform.
Garmin Health Awards background information
This year’s finalists, selected from 113 applications spanning 31 countries, presented their solutions to two different panels of judges – one made up of industry experts and the other of Summit attendees. Each submission was evaluated on customer benefit, scalability, uniqueness, innovation and performance, as well as how they aligned with the Garmin Health key areas of focus: healthcare and research, insurance and employee well-being, and fitness and wellness.
Expert’s Choice and People’s Choice winners each received Garmin smartwatches and fitness trackers worth up to $10,000.
Exclusive announcements and updates
Held this year in Bangkok, Thailand, the Garmin Health Summit began with an invite-only media event attended by journalists focused on digital health and wearable technology. The program featured Garmin executive remarks, business insights, real-life examples of wearable integration and preliminary research findings.
- Garmin Health business insights: Joern Watzke, Senior Director of Garmin Health Global Sales, shared details about business development in Asia and around the world, providing an interesting look into which industries and countries are adopting wearable data integration the fastest.
- Longevity metrics and use cases: Scott Burgett, Senior Director of Garmin Health Engineering, presented on Garmin biometrics used to evaluate longevity and healthspan, while panelists from around the world discussed approaches to longevity support and what preventive care and policies might look like in the future.
- Exclusive research findings from Professor Francesco Pagnini: Through his work with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Italian Navy, Prof. Dr. Pagnini has utilized data from Garmin wearables1 to evaluate the mind-body connection in extreme environments. He shared preliminary findings from current research projects.
Keynote and expert presentations
The second day of the Garmin Health Summit brought together over 200 executives and industry leaders to learn, connect and share thoughts about the future of wearable integration into business sectors like healthcare, insurance, employee benefits, fitness and more.
- Keynote with Dr. Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals: In her keynote, “From Hospitals to Everywhere: Reimagining Care with AI and Technology,” Dr. Reddy shared her perspective on digital health and how technology can help improve access to care for underserved communities.
- Expert Presentations: Jaemy Park of Thyroscope discussed using sleep heart rate as a digital biomarker for thyroid care; Dr. Amy Elliott, Chief Clinical Research Officer at Avera Research Institute, and Dr. Christa Friedrich, Director of Research Operations at Avera Research Institute, presented “From Wrist to Outcomes: Integrating Garmin Wearables into the NIH ECHO Study Across Pregnancy and Childhood”; and Dylan Hartley of WHG Solutions discussed fatigue monitoring and management for truck drivers.
Held each year in a different city – with previous locations including New York City, Prague and Singapore – the Garmin Health Summit offers a unique opportunity for global Garmin Health collaborators to engage in valuable networking and learning opportunities. To learn more, visit the Garmin Health Summit webpage.
Garmin Health empowers innovative third-party digital health solutions with the Garmin Health Connected Ecosystem, comprised of the Garmin product portfolio and its data integration services. By leveraging the Garmin Health API and SDKs, organizations can receive real-time or existing biometric data – with customizable levels of granularity – in accordance with their specific privacy policies. Garmin Health is a globally focused division of technology leader Garmin, collaborating with entities in areas like healthcare, research, employee benefits, insurance, fitness and defense. For more information, email our media team, connect with us on LinkedIn or visit us online at garmin.com/health.
1Garmin wearables are consumer wellness devices and are not medical devices intended to diagnose, treat, prevent or monitor medical conditions. Any medical or clinical functionality described is provided by a third-party solution, based solely on the third party’s interpretation of data collected by its applications through the Garmin Health Connected Ecosystem or third-party sources.
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