Kuretic Health

Digital Health Software Tools (DHSTs) are becoming increasingly available to patients, health systems, and other key stakeholders seeking to enhance patient-centered care with innovative apps, sensors, algorithms, and data visualization approaches. Broadly speaking, DHSTs seek to improve care by providing more informed treatment recommendations, clarifying and refining diagnoses, optimizing workflows and efficiency, and facilitating access to and use of complex healthcare data. Even as these tools grow in use and popularity, real challenges exist to identify which DHSTs are appropriate for which patients or which clinical settings, how to integrate them into clinical and other care, and which DHSTs are safe and effective in practice. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a new Software Precertification Pilot Program to test some new cutting-edge approaches to these issues. To support the FDA’s efforts, UC San Francisco and leading health systems, developers, patient advocates, payors, and other stakeholders are collaborating to pool shared experiences, best practices, and data around Digital Health Software Tools’ use so that their full potential can be realized for the public good. We term this concept and collaboration the ‘Accelerated Digital Clinical Ecosystem’ (ADviCE). ADviCE’s Vision is to become the leading digital health collaborative workspace, linking patients, providers, payors, innovators, health systems, and other stakeholders to advance health and improve healthcare delivery. ADviCE’s Mission is to provide information and tools that enable and evaluate effective and safe use of digital health software tools throughout clinical practice and the healthcare ecosystem.