FDA Partners with Aetion to Answer Urgent COVID-19 Research Questions

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes an entire world to defeat a pandemic. That sentiment is becoming more evident every day as we see cross-industry collaborations and public-private partnerships evolving to combat COVID-19. Take, for example, a new agreement between FDA and Aetion, a venture-backed healthcare data analytics company based in New York, NY. The partnership aims to assess real-world data sets to generate clinical insights about the course and treatment of the novel coronavirus. "We believe that this work has the potential to contribute to the scientific evaluation of potential diagnostics and interventions for COVID-19," Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD, principal deputy commissioner at FDA, said in an agency statement. "The FDA continues to work around the clock to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of this effort, we recognize the potential for diverse, real-world data sources such as electronic health records, insurance claims, patient registries, and lab results to further inform our science-based, all-of-America response to this unprecedented public health emergency." Abernethy points out that in recent years the agency has taken steps to leverage modern, rigorous analyses of real-world data to inform its work. She says the COVID-19 pandemic has brought an urgency to these efforts and the agency has worked quickly to advance collaborations with public and private partners to collect and analyze a variety of real...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: COVID-19 Software Source Type: news