Healthcare DIVE March 4, 2021
Dive Brief:
- FDA has shared a Data Modernization Action Plan setting out its response to the proliferation and diversification of data sources. Through DMAP, FDA aims to identify and run data projects with measurable value, develop repeatable practices and build a talent network.
- FDA is working toward those goals in the belief that “even small advances in our ability to gain useful insights from data can represent significant opportunities,” Janet Woodcock and Amy Abernethy, respectively the acting commissioner and acting chief information officer at FDA wrote in a blog post.
- In 2019, FDA created the Technology Modernization Action Plan. The plan set out the near-term actions the agency proposed to take to equip itself to “securely receive, store, exchange,...