“The Food and Drug Administration is about a year into its IT modernization strategy that focused on three core elements: A modernized IT infrastructure; the ability to demonstrate capabilities of a modern technology and data organization; and the constant communication with stakeholders and other experts to ensure the technology doesn’t fall behind.”
“In the end, the FDA’s IT modernization strategy really is about one thing: data.”
“’When we think about what is the core that keeps FDA humming, what we do is review data in order to make decisions about the products that we render. Data is the fundamental element to how we make our regulatory decisions every day,’ said Dr. Amy Abernethy, the principal deputy commissioner and acting chief information officer of the Food and Drug Administration, on Ask the CIO, sponsored by Vion. ‘Practically speaking, the way that we think about data, the way that we use data at our agency also informs how we’re going to have the capabilities to use data efficiently as we make our regulatory decisions.’”
“While Abernethy, who is a hematologist/oncologist and palliative medicine physician and an internationally recognized clinical data expert and clinical researcher, never underestimated the power and value of data, the need for an enterprise data strategy became clear almost immediately after issuing the IT modernization strategy.”
“She said the time period to set up new cloud services and other related modernization efforts wasn’t going to take as long as she expected.”
“’Because the criticality of data, artificial intelligence and how we’re going to use data in the future was also sitting right in front of us,’ Abernethy said.”
“That data and those emerging technologies depend on the FDA having a modernized infrastructure and that means moving more to the cloud…” Read the full article here.
Source: FDA’s cloud motto: Easy, fast, cost effective, secure – By Jason Miller, August 17, 2020. Federal News Network.
