The Health Information Technology Research and Development (HITRD) Interagency Working Group (IWG) is being renamed to the Digital Health R&D (DHRD) IWG to better reflect the evolving R&D landscape of health technologies.
The Digital Health R&D (DHRD) Interagency Working Group was formed in 2010 as the Health Information Technology R&D IWG to coordinate Federal R&D for improving medical, functional, and public health outcomes across 15 participating agencies. Digital health, as defined by the Food and Drug Administration, includes a wide range of R&D areas beyond traditional health IT, such as mobile health (mHealth), wearable devices, telehealth, and personalized medicine, as well as computing platforms, connectivity, software, sensors to collect data, and AI/ML to analyze health-related data.