FDA readies new data systems for drug safety

The Food and Drug Administration will use two new data systems for tracking prescription drug safety in 2010 and is developing a third drug safety tracking system, known as Sentinel, according to a new report today from the Government Accountability Office. The new systems are MedWatchPlus, which is designed to improve the collection and processing of reports filed with the FDA on adverse effects from drugs, and the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System, which will receive the reports and stores them in a single location, the report states.

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