What Is the Goal of the Digital Health Advisory Committee? Digital Health is a rapidly evolving, cross-cutting space that spans a wide range of technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, virtual reality, or wearables; and issues such as decentralized clinical trials, patient-generated health data, or cybersecurity.

To support safe and effective regulation of digital health technologies while encouraging innovation, the FDA is establishing a Digital Health Advisory Committee to consider this topic and related issues, and to solicit views from technical and scientific subject matter experts from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. The Digital Health Advisory Committee will advise the Commissioner of Food and Drugs on issues related to Digital Health Technologies (DHTs), and FDA policies and regulations about these technologies, providing relevant expertise and…