For Ford, the focus was on his company’s new range of consumer ‘biowearable’ health devices, but his appearance was also another reminder of the increasing importance of ‘digital’ in all its forms across the life sciences sector.
Alongside buzzworthy metaverse, NFT and cryptocurrency offerings, this year’s CES also saw updates in remote patient monitoring tech, mobile games for better mental health and a slew of wellness devices.
“Health tech is at an inflection point,” as Ford put it in his CES keynote. “COVID-19 has powerfully underscored the importance of health and the growing value of the technologies that protect and advance it.”
