Embodiments for intelligent recommendation of useful medical actions to a user by a processor. One or more useful medical actions may be cognitively recommended with evidence in support thereof for impacting a health state of a user according to historical data collected from one or more data sources, one or more user profiles, a domain knowledge, feedback data, or a combination thereof. The one or more useful medical actions may be ranked according to a scoring criteria, the domain knowledge, the historical data, a set of rules, previously recommended medical actions, or a combination thereof.