Fierce Biotech February 25, 2019
Conor Hale
The FDA has renewed and expanded its real-world cancer data collaboration with Flatiron Health for another two years, to continue its work into the validation of related clinical endpoints and development of real-world control arms.
First launched in 2016, Flatiron’s partnership with the FDA’s Information Exchange and Data Transformation program, or INFORMED, has worked to apply anonymized datasets from electronic health records in regulatory decisionmaking, focused on cancer treatment trends and outcomes.
“Traditional clinical trials have long provided the high-quality evidence the FDA needs to determine whether a product is safe and effective for its intended use, but traditional trials do not always represent the real world, lack clinical context, and may...
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