Healthcare IT News November 7, 2018
Researchers can customize and rebrand the agency’s MyStudies App for their own clinical trials or observational studies.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday posted open source code for its MyStudies App to enable researchers to collect patient-provided data.
WHY IT MATTERS
FDA explained that after going through a pilot test, the MyStudies App is not what’s actually available in the Apple Store or Google Play. Rather, the agency put open source code and technical documentation on GitHub that developers or hospital and academic medical center researchers can use to customize and rebrand MyStudies for their own purposes.
ON THE RECORD
Straight from the FDA: “MyStudies is designed to facilitate the input of real world data directly by...
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