I’d love to see a new category on the sidebar similar to the energy category for tracking Health data.
I see a lot of people here who would like track their health and use it for automations and I think that an easy place to track that within home assistant would be amazing.
Hopefully, I’d like this as a native part of Home Assistant so that I don’t have to worry about add ons or anything like that.
So just add one…
maybe the user is asking for a panel that gets treatment like the energy panel?
some health sensors require different graphs. Blood pressure for example is 2 sensors but values are usually seen together.
I read it as exactly that.
Im trying to do something similar with my own install and I’ve come to the following conclusion:
I support a Health dashboard AFTER
ha supports RBAC and a better auth engine something that can do Passkey and/ or OAuth.
Because the first time someone surslfs to a panel with my wife’s weight on it (and yes it’s in my system because Withings…)
I will die. She will kill me dead.
RBAC + Passkey first. pls. Yes it’s THAT important. Health data.
cant you just hide the dashboard or lock it to certain people? data can already be added to HA so the issue you describe can already exist
It can. And I am. Im having to use all my HA fu to make it go away. Not something I’d recommended for a newbie.
Its good enough for someone with a need and knowledge. Nowhere near production ready for a feature add.
When it comes. To energy I don’t care.
Health data is a completely different animal. This is a prioritization issue. Health is good AFTER security work.
Health dashboard is nice to have. AFTER proper RBAC and ID work. Hell even Amazon supports passkeys now.
Ok, so bringing up security is a great concern. I’ll be honest, I didn’t think of that but that’s super important first.
I’d still like my idea to be implemented but better security is a must first.
And yeah, I could add one but the point is to not have to add one manually. Something more akin to the energy panel would be great.
while i agree about the security concerns, the data is already in HA. Security should not hold that up as nothing new is being introduced. Its just a dashboard.
Not exactly.
Here’s what I mean by that
In it’s current form. (no custom addin, integration no HACS, etc.) there is zero to prevent one user from seeing the data (you said yourself, the data is IN HA.)
Which means it is unfit for storing med data securely. (any decent security audit should say the same. There’s no controls)
But we don’t advertise HA as supporting health data the same way we don’t advertise supporting gas or water or whatever. (dev own words when asked why energy dash doesn’t support gas, water, cable other utilities)
So it’s OK.
The minute you add a dashboard, you are tacitly saying ‘hey it’s for health data.’
And THAT is the problem. You can’t do that until the security concerns are addressed.
Yes we can hamstring it in with creating a bunch of hidden dashboards and things with HACS. But out of the box?
Nope. Not in a million years.
Its a what we should do v what we can do thing. One version would imply we support bad behavior.
To be fair there is a health category and integrations that already provide health data: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#health In addition to that the privacy policy was also updated to include Health data as its treated no different than any other data that comes into the server.
to some users they see a need to add this data and they do. While you may not like it others see a direct need for it. Thats the beauty of HA though what may not work for some may work well for others.
in all honesty, I kinda expect the community to come up with their own templated dashboards for something like this that others can share and consume. The community does a great job frontend stuff I dont see this being any different. Just like a custom card can exist to help display this data. The energy dashboard is different, not many graphs like that. Just like health stuff, the way to display the data is different. I am sure we have some resident health experts who will spin some stuff up if they have not already 
I do agree with your sentiment though an official dashboard would require extra care.