FDA To Boost Health IT As Part Of Four-Year Strategic Plan

Over the next four years, the U .S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) strategic plan indicates that the agency plans to increase its use of health information technology (IT) as it moves from passive to active surveillance systems to monitor the safety of medications, medical devices, and other products. The FDA’s Sentinel Initiative, launched in May 2008 to electronically track the safety of safety of commercialized drugs, biologics, and medical devices, will gain new functionality to actively query diverse automated health care data holders including electronic health record systems, administrative, and insurance claims databases, and registries, to evaluate possible . . .