The average US doctor’s appointment lasts 15 minutes. That’s not much time to reconstruct years of diagnoses, medications, and lab results scattered across different clinics, hospitals, and specialists who rarely talk to each other. Ultrahuman thinks wearable data can help fix that, but only if it’s paired with what’s actually in a person’s medical record.

On September 17, Ultrahuman launched the HealthEx PowerPlug, a new feature inside its app that connects a member’s electronic medical records to the continuous biomarker stream from the Ultrahuman Ring. The integration is built on HealthEx, a platform that lets individuals access and share their health records with apps, providers, or health plans of their choosing. Members control which care sites to pull from, actively consent to sharing, and can revoke access at any time.

What the PowerPlug actually does

The feature maps 532 conditions, medications, and procedures from electronic medical records directly into the Ultrahuman app. Once connected, a member’s resting heart rate, heart rate variability, skin temperature, and deep sleep data appear on the same timeline as their diagnoses, procedures, and prescriptions. So if someone started a new medication in March and their sleep quality dropped in April, that correlation is visible in one place rather than two separate systems.

But the PowerPlug goes beyond display. It also flags gaps in care: where a condition or medication implies a follow-up test that hasn’t happened, or a monitoring interval that has lapsed, the feature surfaces that as a question to raise at the next appointment. Members also get a “Visit Pack,” a doctor-ready summary of their records, current medications, and relevant wearable data, along with suggested questions and tests to discuss.

How records are accessed

After a member verifies their identity, HealthEx locates their health records automatically across care sites nationwide. It does this through the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, known as TEFCA, the federal interoperability framework designed to make health data accessible across different health systems. So records from a hospital visit in one state can sit alongside data from a specialist in another.

Priyanka Agarwal, M.D., MBA, co-founder and CEO of HealthEx, put it plainly: “A medical record captures what happened at the visit, and Ultrahuman shows how the body responds every day after it.” That framing matters. Wearables have long been criticized for generating data without clinical context. Pairing continuous biometrics with structured medical history is a more credible attempt to close that gap than most consumer health integrations to date.

Why this matters beyond the product

Fragmented records are not a niche problem. Most Americans with complex or chronic conditions have care spread across multiple providers who operate in separate systems. Primary care physicians often don’t know what a cardiologist prescribed six months ago. Patients are expected to fill those gaps themselves, usually from memory, in a 15-minute window.

This integration doesn’t solve that systemic problem. But it gives patients a tool to arrive at appointments more informed, which has real value. Research consistently shows that informed, engaged patients have better outcomes and fewer unnecessary tests. Still, it’s worth being clear about what this is: a general wellness feature, not a medical device. It does not diagnose or treat anything, and it is not a substitute for clinical care.

Privacy and what it costs

On data use, both companies state that member health data is not sold, not used for advertising, and not used to train AI models. Details are available at the HealthEx Privacy Center and Ultrahuman’s privacy policy.

The HealthEx PowerPlug is available now in the United States for Ultrahuman Ring users. Pricing is $4.99 per month or $45.99 per year, accessed through the PowerPlugs tab in the app. HealthEx Wallet, which lets users view their unified health history directly through HealthEx, is currently free. Deeper integration with other Ultrahuman PowerPlugs, including those covering Vitamin D, GLP-1, and respiratory health, is planned for a future release.

• 532 conditions, medications, and procedures mapped from electronic medical records
• Biomarker timeline includes resting heart rate, HRV, skin temperature, and deep sleep
• Missed follow-up identification based on record gaps
• Visit Pack summary prepared for doctor appointments
• Records accessed via TEFCA across care sites nationwide
• Member consent required; access can be revoked at any time

For a sector that has spent years promising that wearables will transform healthcare without much evidence of clinical integration, this is a more concrete step. Whether it changes how patients and clinicians actually use appointment time remains to be seen.