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# Panelists Review CDRH Digital Health Goals
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/panelists-review-cdrh-digital-health-goals/
- Published: 2020-11-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T16:37:43.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Devices, #legacy-id-D5148158

During an 11/12 online listening session for the CDRH Digital Health Center of Excellence (DHCoE), a panel of industry experts discussed whether FDA has developed the correct goals for the DHCoE and how best to collaborate on the Center’s work. DHCoE director **Bakul Patel** [said](https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/workshops-conferences-medical-devices/webinar-digital-health-center-excellence-listening-session-2-11122020-11122020?ref=fdaweb.com) FDA considers digital health to be a convergance of connectivity data and computing power for healthcare and its related uses across the lifecycle of the life of an individual or patient.

“Digital health has the potential to move healthcare from our traditional settings to the patients themselves,” he said. While FDA has been playing a role in the digital health space, Patel said, the agency believes there are areas of technology for which the agency and industry must be on the same page for expectations and standards.

Patel also noted that in the current Covid-19 pandemic environment, the clinical studies that are happening for medical products are extremely powerful when they use digital technology.