Each year, Consumer Electronics Show (CES), showcases innovative technology that shapes our world. Healthtech startups and companies from across the globe come together with innovations to revolutionise care.
At CES 2025, healthtech took centre stage with innovations ranging from AI-driven automation to wearable biosensors. It featured ideas for improving patient care, addressing systemic issues in healthcare, and improving personal health tracking.
Here’s a roundup of healthtech at CES 2025.
Advancements in wearable technologies
CES 2025 saw the unveiling of several cutting-edge wearables and biosensors, marking a major shift in personal health tracking.
This year, companies moved beyond simple data collection and focused on real-time monitoring and predictive analytics—helping users take proactive control of their health.
This enables preventive care, ensuring early problem detection and lower hospital visits.
Dexcom introduced Stelo Glucose Biosensor
Designed for individuals with Type 2 diabetes who don’t use insulin and those with prediabetes, Stelo is a little wearable sensor. It is painless, simple to use, and fastens to the back of the upper arm.
Its 12-day wear time is the longest biosensor wear period available. It ensures easy and convenient monitoring by continually measuring blood sugar levels and sending real-time glucose readings to the user’s smartphone.
Abbot launched Lingo
Abbot’s Lingo is a biosensor and software that monitors blood sugar levels and offers individualised health counselling. They work together to help you eat and exercise in ways that are beneficial for you.
Your unique glycaemic response to diet and exercise is decoded by the Lingo biosensor. Your data is transformed into something you can comprehend and use via the Lingo software.
By having your biosensor provide glucose data directly to your phone, you can analyse the impact of your eating habits. The continuous glucose monitor (CGM) is softly affixed to the back of your upper arm. You won’t even notice it’s there.
Sky Labs showcased Cart Vital
Sky Labs introduced a cutting-edge wearable called CART VITAL (project name: Apollon) that is designed for thorough monitoring of critical health parameters.
These parameters include oxygen saturation, irregular pulse, heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, skin temperature, and body temperature. For services in homes and care facilities, this creative approach is crucial.
Wearable Devices Ltd displayed the Mudra Link Wristband
The Mudra Link Neural Gesture-Control Wristband improves human-technology interaction by enabling users to operate digital gadgets via brain movements.
Neural impulses generated in the brain and sent through the wrist are analysed by their patented SNC sensors. These signals are transformed into digital commands, allowing unhindered mobility.
With a smooth user experience, Mudra Link opens new possibilities for physically challenged individuals.
Tackling healthcare worker shortages with AI and automation
Healthcare is experiencing a severe labour shortage. In order to close the supply and demand imbalance, AI-powered solutions are being used. They can handle the overwhelming amount of patient data and reduce the strain on medical practitioners.
AI Scribes are a life-saving invention unveiled at CES 2025. By improving patient-doctor communication, these tools hope to lessen professionals’ documentation burnout. As a result, medical personnel can concentrate more on patient care and enhance the provision of healthcare.
Bee AI’s pioneer wearable
Bee is a personal AI that creates summaries, insightful analyses, and timely reminders from chats, tasks, locations, and more. It’s a very simple wristband that resembles a simple fitness tracker.
The wearable listens to patient-doctor conversations, and how you go about your day and uses the data to create a customised knowledge base about your life. It supports healthcare providers by lowering the load of manual note-taking, allowing them to focus more on patient interactions.
Omi’s AI-integrated wearable
Omi unveiled a wearable gadget that uses AI to recognise when a user is ready to engage with it. This device simplifies the documentation process for medical professionals by providing features like conversation transcription and summarization.
The device is worn on a lanyard around your neck; it is a constantly listening gadget that can assist you in making sense of your daily existence.
These developments are part of a broader trend in healthcare: the use of AI to assist with medical records. Doctors can now focus more on patients and provide better care by utilising these tools to automate note-taking and transcription, which reduces paperwork.
Hormone health at home with Eli Health
CES 2025’s one of the most fascinating developments came from Eli Health. They employ saliva testing to deliver immediate hormone assessment, making preventive and personalised healthcare more accessible.
Eli Health: A game changer
Hormones are essential for our body and organs to function properly. They are in charge of our body’s growth and development, energy maintenance, reproduction, etc.
Conventionally, hormone testing requires you to visit a lab. The results usually take weeks to be processed. Eli Health overcomes this functional and time inefficiency by creating a solution that can provide you with results within a few minutes.
How does Eli Health’s device work?
The testing process involves placing a pouch on the tongue for saliva collection, and the result is developed within minutes. You no longer need blood samples and complex processing; Eli Health makes hormone testing efficient and user-friendly.
Users can also take pictures of their results using a mobile app for immediate feedback. This eliminates the need to contact the doctor or wait for test results, enabling individuals to regularly monitor their hormonal health and make informed health decisions.
Eli’s Health’s hormone testing is a revolutionary step towards meeting the growing need of customers for easy and accessible wearable health technology. This invention helps us take our health back into our own hands by helping us understand our bodies better.
Dementia care innovations
Dementia is a term used for a wide range of neurological conditions that cause loss of ability to think, remember, and reason that affects the patient’s daily life. Over time, the condition of the patient worsens, requiring extra support for carrying out everyday menial tasks like eating or getting dressed.
At CES 2025, innovative solutions were put forward that integrate technologies with health to improve the well-being of patients suffering from dementia.
Zinnia TV
Featured at CES 2025, Zinnia TV is a therapeutic TV program that reduces the stress for people with dementia and their carers. Its motive is to diminish anxiety among the patients and ease their daily activities.
The content is well thought out to maintain gentle pacing and comfort for viewers. It avoids confusing plots that might agitate the patients. The videos foster connection and engagement, alleviating social isolation among the patients and enhancing their mental well-being.
Jennie
Tombot, a pioneer in lifelike robotic pets, introduced their fully autonomous and hyper-realistic Labrador puppy robot Jennie at CES 2025. It is designed to provide comfort and support to dementia patients.
Jennie has realistic fur and is equipped with touch sensors that react to human touch. It produces puppy-like reactions, including sounds recorded from real-life Labrador puppies. For patients suffering from dementia or mental health challenges, Jennie serves as a source of companionship and joy.
Revolutionizing hearing aids
Research has demonstrated a strong link between social isolation and hearing impairment. Tech companies are now aiming to make hearing aid technology fashionable and discrete. This way the mental stigma attached to hearing loss can be lessened.
Aesthetics and utility in hearing aid technology came together at CES 2025, displaying inventions that not only plan to improve hearing loss but also make it stylish.
Xander Glasses
XanderGlasses are wearable assistive gadgets designed for people suffering from intense hearing issues. By replacing “sound” with “sight,” XanderGlasses allows people who are hard of hearing to follow conversations.
They convert speech to text using Vuzix Shield smart glasses, which integrate microphones, CPUs, and augmented reality displays. Accurate captions are then quickly projected into the wearer’s field of vision. This allows patients to be confident in their daily social interactions—all of this without requiring a cloud connection.
Captify Smart Glasses
Captify showcased smart eyewear to empower people suffering from hearing loss. Through its noise-cancelling microphones and smooth smartphone interface, Captify makes sure that everyone feels heard during talks.
With a lightweight and stylish design, it is compatible with prescription lenses. Therefore, it can be used for daily wear. Additionally, it has features like multilingual translation and a 10-hour battery standby. Now patients can follow conversations with ease regardless of language barrier or hearing ability.
Nuance Audio Glasses
EssilorLuxottica introduced the Nuance Audio glasses, an over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aid that is built into smart glasses and is intended for users with mild to moderate hearing loss. Its beam-forming technology allows the glasses to cut through background noise and clearly listen into discussions.
Moreover, the FDA’s approval of over-the-counter hearing aids is a major turning point in the field of hearing health. Now, people will be able to take preventive measures to manage their hearing loss before it becomes a major handicap. The approval also improves accessibility and lowers costs. Companies are increasingly focusing on developing sophisticated and covert solutions for hearing aids.
OnMed’s ‘Clinic in a Box’ expanding healthcare reach
CES 2025 witnessed technology being utilised to deliver healthcare services in isolated and underserved places. Advanced telemedicine and portable clinics are being developed to make healthcare accessible to different demographics.
One notable example is ‘Clinic in a Box’ by OnMed. It is a virtual medical centre where patients receive scans and diagnoses. At an OnMed CareStation, patients can walk in without appointments. If available, the door opens, and a certified assistant guides them via video.
The station features privacy glass, HD cameras, thermal imaging, a blood pressure cuff, a pulse oximeter, and a stethoscope for remote exams. It self-cleans after each visit using spray, air filtration, and UV light. The stations are able to cover roughly 85% of “what you get at a typical primary care visit.”
Conclusion
CES 2025 demonstrated that the future of healthcare is tech-driven, patient-centric, and highly accessible. Innovations in wearable tech, AI-powered automation, and telemedicine are reshaping the industry—offering smarter, more personalized, and efficient healthcare solutions.
The big takeaway? Technology is not just improving healthcare—it’s redefining it.
