Health Populi January 7, 2020
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

The presence of health and medicine is growing at CES, the annual conference of all-things-tech for consumers. At this week’s Show in Las Vegas, we see that the Internet of Healthy Things (a phrase coined by Dr. Joe Kvedar) has taken hold and gone mainstream in remote health monitoring, wearable tech, and heart rate tracking which is now embedded (and expected by health-seeking consumers) in wristbands. An expanding category in the Internet of Healthy Things is oral care. Let’s call this the Internet of Teeth, yet another riff on “IoT.”

Of course, oral health goes well beyond teeth and toothbrushes. Oral care is a pillar of overall health and self-care, with medical evidence growing connecting the dots between a healthy...

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Topics: Conferences / Podcast, Digital Health, IoT (Internet of Things), Technology, Trends
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