The Food and Drug Administration rolled out a new Web site to house information regarding its Sentinel Initiative.
The program aims to monitor healthcare safety issues in real time through the sentinel system. The FDA eventually wants to electronically link data from several sources about medication and other FDA-approved products to assess their safety.
The federal agency has conducted pilot projects addressing technical and policy issues involving the development of the system, from data standards to privacy and security. On the new Web site, the FDA posted a review of technical methods used to create search functions for finding safety events, and visitors can subscribe to receive updates when information is available as well.
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