A Month Until #CES2026 – The Journey to Our Personal Health Operating Systems
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 3 December 2025 in Aging, Aging and Technology, AI, AI and health, Amazon, Anxiety, Apple, Artificial intelligence, Augmented intelligence, Autos and health, Baby Boomers and Health, Beauty and health, Bedroom and health, Behavior change, Bio/life sciences, Business and health, Cardiovascular health, Caregivers, ChatGPT, Chronic care, Chronic disease, Clinical lab, Computers and health, Connected health, Connectivity, Consumer electronics, Consumer experience, Consumer-directed health, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Demographics and health, Depression, Design and health, Determinants of health, Diabetes, Diagnostics, Diet and health, Digital health, Digital transformation, Doctors, DTC health, Exercise, FDA, Fitness, Food and health, Future of health care, Games and health, GenAI, GLP-1s, Health access, Health and Beauty, Health apps, Health at home, Health care industry, Health care real estate, Health Consumers, Health ecosystem, Health engagement, Health privacy, Health regulation, Health social networks, Healthcare access, Heart disease, Heart health, Home care, Home health, Hospital to home, Hospitals, Housing and health, Internet of things, Life expectancy, longevity, Medical innovation, Medicare, Mobile apps, Mobile health, Nutrition, Obesity, Omnichannel healthcare, Out of pocket costs, Patient engagement, Patient experience, Pharmaceutical, Physicians, Politics and health, Popular culture and health, Pre-existing conditions, Prescription drugs, Prevention, Prevention and wellness, Privacy and security, Remote health monitoring, Retail health, Security and health data, Self-care, Seniors and health, Shopping and health, Smart homes, Smartwatches, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Transparency, Trust, Wearable tech, Wearables, Weight loss, Wellbeing
In a month, I’ll board a plane for Las Vegas to spend a week at CES 2026, the annual electronics conference that last year brought together over 140,000 global technology stakeholders to display, demonstrate, and sell the latest in consumer-facing tech. This will be my fourteenth CES (including the virtually convened meeting held in 2021). If you want to time travel, here’s a link to an early CES post featuring “The Battle of the (Wrist)bands.” Indeed, the digital health aisle at the time had many wrist-worn activity trackers, largely amped-up pedometers, with the likes
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I'm once again pretty gobsmackingly happy to have been named a judge for the 2026 CES Innovation Awards, focusing on digital health, longevity, and fitness. Preceding every year's global conference, CES receives hundreds of applications from innovators around the world building tech-based solutions to big challenges. So glad to be part of this annual initiative to see what global health-tech pioneers are cooking up to address and scale the health and well-being of fellow health citizens, globally.
You can see the results of the Digital Health Awardees here on the #CES2026 website.
Stay tuned to Health Populi in early January as I'll be attending Media Days and meeting with innovators in digital health, longevity, and the home-for-health during CES 2026 in Las Vegas. I'll be at the conference for an entire week meeting with clients and exhibitors at the biggest-meeting-of-the-year on consumer-facing technology. I'll be reporting daily from Vegas here in the blog, sharing with you insights about the latest breakthroughs, products, and services that enable people to manage health, well-being, and medical issues in their own hands and homes.