FDA's Plans for Better IT Infrastructure, Data Analytics

One of eight priority areas is substantially enhancing FDA's information technology infrastructure. Better IT will open opportunities to better monitor adverse trends and disease outbreaks; combine data from multiple clinical trials, preclinical work and postmarket studies; evaluate and compare the safety and effectiveness of products; host genomics data; and conduct large scale data- and text-mining for research purposes, according to the agency.

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