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Topic Overview

Digital Health

Digital health technologies are empowering consumers to take control of their wellness. These tools aim to improve health care and save lives — all while lowering costs.


Featured Event

Digital Health: Redefining Well-Being at CES 2025

Situated among complimentary industries, like Smart Home, Accessibility, Food Tech and more, the Digital Health Summit brought together the entire health ecosystem to learn, network, and explore the role technology plays in advancing and reforming medicine, healthcare and consumer wellness.

DIVE IN to the groundbreaking advancements that are revolutionizing healthcare delivery, enhancing patient outcomes, and empowering individuals to take charge of their health like never before. 

What is Health AI

The Health AI Collaborative is a group of associations representing the diverse stakeholders of the healthcare industry. 

The group's mission is to drive consensus on understanding of how AI is being used in the U.S. healthcare system and develop and share resources with policymakers to assist in charting a thoughtful course for the safe, trustworthy, and effective use of innovative AI applications in healthcare.

Featured Digital Health Research
Featured Research

Empowering Independence with Technology Among Adults Age 50-Plus

The report combines the work of a quantitative study from CTA and qualitative research from AARP. CTA’s quantitative Aging in Place: Staying Connected with Technology  reveals that older adults are comfortable with tech and consider certain technologies, especially those related to personal health, to be useful as they seek to age in place. The findings also indicated an opportunity to repurpose or reimagine mainstream technologies as tools to help older adults remain independent and, in their homes, and communities.


More Research

Aging in Place: Staying Connected with Technology
The Future of Women’s Digital Health Solutions
Driving Consumer Adoption of Digital Health Solutions

Featured Standards

Methodology of Measurements for Features In Sleep Tracking Consumer Technology Devices and Applications (ANSI/CTA/NSF-2052.2-A)

This voluntary standard defines a method for measuring elemental parameters used in consumer technology devices and applications that evaluate sleep.

Best Practices and Recommendations for Telehealth Solutions (ANSI/CTA-2113)

This standard identifies a best practice framework for integrating telehealth solutions into the healthcare framework including the use cases of acute-care, post-acute care, chronic care, and telehealth visits. 

Recommendations and Best Practices of Sleep Quality Determination in Consumer Sleep Monitoring Solutions (ANSI/CTA/NSF-2110)

This standard provides recommendations and best practices for the recording and reporting of sleep quality by consumer sleep monitoring solutions.

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Health Division

Health Division

The Health Division of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® strives to advance the use of consumer-based, technology-enabled health solutions to deliver better health outcomes and reduce overall health care costs.

In 2024, through collaboration with industry leaders, policymakers, and healthcare thought leaders, the CTA Health Division addressed key challenges and championed policies to drive growth in health technology.  


Latest Content

Article | March 21, 2024
Transforming Lives: The Impact of Digital Health Innovations for Older Women
Article | January 30, 2024
Healthcare’s Transformative Technologies at CES 2024
Article | August 03, 2023
Ripple Standard in Action for Eldercare

Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids

A result of years-long advocacy by CTA, member companies and allied organizations, learn about the journey to make hearing aids accessible to millions of Americans over-the-counter.