FDA must make smarter use of big data

Healthcare IT News: A bipartisan think tank is calling on Congress to enable the Food and Drug Administration to use hospital electronic health records and crowd-sourced patient experience data to transform the drug and medical device approval process.

On Monday, the Bipartisan Policy Center kicked off its five-point "FDA: Advancing Medical Innovation" initiative, focusing on the agency's role in biomedical research and how big data – currently soloed in healthcare IT systems and patient social networks – can improve personalized medicine, genomics, molecular pathways and other cutting-edge treatments.

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