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# FDA Proposing Digital Health Center of Excellence
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/fda-proposing-digital-health-center-of-excellence/
- Published: 2018-09-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T00:31:27.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Devices, #legacy-id-D5142336

FDA commissioner **Scott Gottlieb** and CDRH director **Jeffrey Shuren** say that as part of the agency’s FY 2019 budget they are proposing to create a Center of Excellence for Digital Health to advance modernizing FDA’s regulatory approach to help the industry grow and reach its full potential while protecting patients. “The Center of Excellence would help establish more efficient regulatory paradigms, consider building new capacity to evaluate and recognize third-party certifiers, and support a cybersecurity unit to complement the advances in software-based devices,” Gottlieb and Shuren say in a [statement](https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm620246.htm?ref=fdaweb.com). “With the creation of a Center of Excellence, FDA could commit additional resources to helping developers create innovative products that can benefit patients.”

The statement also discusses steps the agency has taken in the past few years to encourage more development and greater innovation in the digital health space. “With the launch of our Digital Health Innovation Action Plan last summer, we committed to implementing policies, adding expertise, and exploring a software precertification pilot program to bring clarity and efficiency to how we regulate digital health products,” the two executives say.