Healthcare IT News January 8, 2020
The company is making the agency’s open-source MyStudies platform available, enabling for easier access to data for research into new medications, devices and more.
Google announced this week that it will make the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s open-source MyStudies platform available on the Google Cloud Platform.
WHY IT MATTERS
The goal, said Jameson Rogers, product manager at Google Cloud Healthcare & Life Sciences, is “stimulate an open ecosystem that will improve the ability of organizations to perform research that leads to better patient outcomes.
FDA’s ongoing prioritization of real-world evidence means that “drug and device organizations are increasingly looking to incorporate patient-generated data into regulatory submissions for new products and treatment indications,” as Rogers explained in a blog post.
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