TL; DR
Android 17 will add a 3rd companion role profile called medical profile. Apps using this profile get default access to notifications, exact alarms, bluetooth. Apps using this role will be prioritized over standard battery and memory savings of android – reduce chances of being killed.
I don’t think they really care. Or take a more holistic (philosophical?) perspective, they don’t have any incentives to make this work.
But, they already do. Smart watches and smart glasses already have similar things built for them. No reason medical apps and devices cannot use a similar integration.
I am talking about a more higher level.
Imagine the meetings of mail.ru/VK leadership on new UX and initiatives. They are not idiots and they may have good ideas and yet it is reasonable to be sceptical of their ability to implement such initiatives (even if there is genuine desire) because they operate under certain restrictive parameters.
And so does Google. A high-level example, they will always claim any regulation is bad even if it does has zero impact on their business. Even if regulation may be the best option forward.
Do you trust mail.ru/VK? I don’t trust mail.ru/VK or Google, irrespective of the situation at hand.
Now back to the low level stuff, this thing will be abandoned in a year or two once the product manager gets promoted. We’ve seen this before and we will see it again.