Recently the FDA announced it was going to use the Medicare data base in the effort to mine and help find adverse drug side effects as well as other pertinent data relative to the approval and warning process in place at the FDA. This is more than likely related to the latest technology updates...
This could be great news as how many times do medical records need to be anonymized for research, a lot. We all remember the case with the NHS and their mistake made a few months back with the records. This will be nice too if it is open source and I hope they send the software over...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-24-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, techonology, Medical Records, medicare, FDA, HIPAA, MIT, Anonymize