Garmin India, Apollo HealthAxis join hands for rural health tracking

Garmin India and Apollo HealthAxis have integrated Garmin Health API into Apollo’s Total Health programme, enabling smartwatch-based tracking of chronic diseases in rural India. The study aims to improve health outcomes through continuous monitoring and biometric insights in underserved communities

Hyderabad: Garmin India and Apollo HealthAxis announced that Apollo’s Total Health programme under its CSR initiative is now fully integrated with the Garmin Health API, enabling the deployment of Garmin smartwatches and fitness trackers in rural India to monitor chronic diseases such as diabetes.

The collaborative research study aims to determine how continuous health tracking can improve outcomes in underserved communities.

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Juha Villanen, Head of B2B and Partnerships, Garmin (EMEA Emerging Markets and India), said, “This collaboration is a significant step forward in our efforts to provide actionable, real-time health data that complements clinical expertise.”

Dr Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group, said, “By bringing together wearable technology with Apollo’s health programmes, we can empower individuals to take charge of their own well-being and also reach communities that often get left behind.”

Advanced biometric tracking through Garmin devices will include key metrics such as heart rate variability (HRV), sleep, stress, respiration, body battery, PulseOx, VO₂ Max, and physical activity, said Dr Sai Praveen Haranath, Senior Pulmonologist, Apollo Hospitals, and Senior Vice-President, Medical and Strategy, Apollo HealthAxis.