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Will advances in digital health be driven by a combination of Silicon Valley know-how and clinical trial expertise?

It will take a marriage between Silicon Valley and clinical trials expertise to drive innovation in the digital health space, which is being held back by uncertainty – and a reluctance that is keeping industry executives up at night.

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FDA’s $100 Million RWE Project: Making It All It Can Be

In a sign of the increasing role real-world evidence (RWE) will have in healthcare research, FDA recently announced a $100 million proposal to build a modern system to gather RWE from about 10 million individuals. The good news is that this could transform clinical trials for a generation; the bad (or at least worrisome) news is that as currently planned this dramatic initiative might wind up being largely limited to data from electronic health records.

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