Tech Trends to Watch at CES 2026 – For Health, It’s About Longer Living, Smarter Living, and Better Living
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 5 January 2026 in Accessibility, Aging, Aging and Technology, AI, AI and health, Artificial intelligence, Augmented intelligence, Autonomous cars, Autos and health, Beauty and health, Bedroom and health, Behavioral health, Big Tech, Bioethics, Burnout, Business and health, Climate change, Cloud computing and health, Connected health, Consumer electronics, Cybersecurity, Data analytics and health, Depression, Design and health, Diabetes, Diet and health, Digital health, Digital transformation, Doctors, DTP health, Environment and heatlh, Exercise, Family, Fashion and health, Fitness, Food and health, Food as medicine, Food security, Future of health care, GenAI, Global Health, GLP-1s, Grocery stores, Health access, Health and Beauty, Health apps, Health at home, Health care industry, Health care real estate, Health Consumers, Health ecosystem, Health engagement, Health equity, Healthcare access, Healthcare DIY, Heart health, Heat and health, Home care, Home economics, Home health, Hospital to home, Housing and health, Hygiene and health, Large language models LLMs, Life expectancy, Loneliness, longevity, Machine learning, media and health, Medical device, medical home, Medical innovation, Medical technology, Medicines, Mental health, mHealth, Mobile apps, Mobile health, Moms and health, Money and health, Nutrition, Obesity, Oral care, Patient engagement, Patient experience, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacy, Physicians, Play and health, Popular culture and health, Prescription drugs, Prevention, Prevention and wellness, Primary care, Privacy and security, Quality of Life, Real estate and health, Remote health monitoring, Retail health, Retirement and health, Robots, Robots and health, Schools and health, Self-care, Seniors and health, Sensors and health, Shopping and health, Sleep, Smart cities, Smart homes, Smartphone apps, Smartphones, Smartwatches, Social health, Social media and health, Social networks and health, Social responsibility, Sports and health, Sustainability, Tariffs, Techquity, Telehealth, Trust, User experience UX, Virtual health, Voice technology, Wearable tech, Wearables, Weight loss, Wellbeing, Wellness, Women and health
Live from CES 2026 in Las Vegas…the first day of CES Media Days preceding the big show always covers a context-setting report on Tech Trends to Watch. This is one of my annual go-to programs which helps orient media and industry analysts with a lens on CES’s key tech categories and some hard data on market size and growth expectations. While I’ll focus on the health/care specifics in the trend forecast, let me first update you on the overall technology market revenues for the U.S. which are estimated at $565 billion for 2026.
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.
Jane collaborated on Robin Strongin's Health Dame webcast to discuss Halle Tecco's new book, Massively Better Healthcare, due out in early 2026. We brainstormed with Maven Founder Kate Ryder and the company's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Neel Shah about the state of U.S. healthcare and solutions not just to tweak at the margins but to "massively" improve health care delivery, financing, outcomes, and equity in America. It was a delightful, enlightening conversation -- I hope you'll check it out.