FDA Looking to link healthcare data and product safety

According to Medical News Today, the FDA is looking for a way to better connect medical product safety with healthcare data. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. has been chosen to create a program to collect all data from electronic health record systems, administrative and insurance claims databases and medical registries to create a full picture of the true safety of medical products.

Janet Woodcock, M.D., director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, commented,
"The FDA has been doing the groundwork for a nationwide Sentinel System. Once operational, the Sentinel System will help us find answers to important drug safety questions, leading to stronger safeguards for public health, while still protecting the privacy and security of individual health information."

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