FDA Launches EHR Initiative To Support Clinical Studies

In December 2015, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had received 41 project proposals for its electronic health record (EHR) eSource initiative to support clinical research projects that integrate clinical trial records with participants' EHRs. By using standards-based technology solutions in clinical trials, the FDA anticipates improvements in clinical trial design and execution that will speed the cycle of clinical research and bring medicines to market faster. The 41 demonstration projects will test the capability and evaluate performance of using an end-to-end EHR-to-Electronic Data Capture (EDC) single-point data capture approach . . .