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FDA officials review best practices for validating digitally derived endpoints

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1 September 2026

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Digital Health

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United States

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Fusion42 · 2 September 2026 · Fusion42 review

FDA officials emphasized the need for sponsors to validate digitally derived endpoints in the intended patient population and to pre-specify missing data strategies at every data level for clinical trials using digital health technologies. Key issues include lack of population-specific algorithm validation and incomplete missing-data handling plans, which can bias trial endpoints and affect regulatory review.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Digital Health.

◆ ◆ The Wire takeaway

You must validate your endpoint algorithms in the actual patient groups you target, not just healthy volunteers or generic populations. Missing data policies must be detailed across all data levels now, or your clinical trial risks regulatory rejection.

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