Digital health innovation — the development of new tools to provide better health care and health outcomes for patients — is one of the defining trends in medicine right now. A generation of developers, health professionals, and entrepreneurs are creating tools to increase price transparency, build effective care networks, and deliver preventative care to patients through new channels. Investment in digital health — from tech companies and insurers alike — continues to accelerate.

For this transformation to happen, government must keep pace, and it’s incumbent upon our fledging industry to help it do that.

That’s why we’re proud to announce our affiliation with two groups that share our attitudes about the future of digital health, and our goals for its expansion — The Population Health Alliance (PHA) and the American College of Preventative Medicine’s (ACPM) Corporate Round Table.

The PHA is a leading advocate for preventative care for chronic conditions, building a coalition of employers, payers, startups, providers, population health specialists and others to share data and outcomes. We look forward to working with the PHA to bring greater focus to — and incentives around — using preventative care to combat the creeping epidemic of chronic disease.

The ACPM Corporate Roundtable will connect us to an alliance of physicians dedicated to making preventative care central to their practices — despite a system that too often still rewards doctors for treating costly chronic conditions, but fails to deliver incentives for them to help patients prevent developing the disease in the first place.

We’re eager to work with both groups to further the digital health agenda — and to build recognition of digital therapeutics as an evidence-based field of medicine with clinically-validated results. Both the PHA and the ACPM have demonstrated their commitment to using digital health tools for effective preventative care, and pushing government to reward the use of these tools when they deliver effective, cost-saving care. We’re proud to join them.

We look forward to working with our new partners to build the case, and support for policies that enable digital health to thrive.