FDA to Expand Electronic Health Records Pilot to Track Product Safety

According to a report in iHealthBeat, the Food and Drug Administration is going to expand a pilot that is using electronic health records, as well as claims data, to monitor the safety of medical devices the agency regulates: "Specifically, FDA said the [Mini-Sentinel] system can examine: More than 350 million person years of observation; Four billion pharmaceutical dispensings; and 4.1 billion patient meetings." Now, the pilot is being rolled out on a full scale.