FDA on the hunt for its own EHR system

Modern Healthcare: The Food and Drug Administration is looking for a "large electronic medical record system" to conduct research about adverse drug reactions.

The FDA's Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Division will use the EHR to look into the "safety and surveillance of FDA regulated products," according to the request for quote the agency posted earlier this week. Specifically, researchers will analyze VA data to look for adverse side effects from medications. It will use the EHR to develop "novel data mining and data visualization" to apply to the data.

Right now, those data exist in different versions of VistA, the VA's home-grown EHR.

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