FDA to roll out mod­ern­iza­tion plan in push for da­ta in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty

An ac­tion plan will be rolled out in the com­ing months to de­fine the FDA’s ap­proach to mod­ern­iz­ing its tech­nol­o­gy in­fra­struc­ture and frame­work, FDA Prin­ci­pal Deputy Com­mis­sion­er Amy Aber­nethy said dur­ing a Thurs­day keynote at the Of­fice of the Na­tion­al Co­or­di­na­tor for Health In­for­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy’s (ONC) 3rd in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty fo­rum.

FDA mod­ern­iza­tion ef­forts have been un­der­way in re­cent years, with the re­or­ga­ni­za­tions of the Cen­ter for De­vices and Ra­di­o­log­i­cal Health and the Cen­ter for Drug Eval­u­a­tion and Re­search. The plan that the FDA in­tends to roll out soon is a cross-cen­ter ap­proach.

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