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A look at what might be the first app to tap OpenFDA

Within 24 hours of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's official unveiling its OpenFDA data, OpenFDA Search appeared. The idea behind the early version app, created by Social Health Insights, is ...
MobiHealthNews

Will OpenFDA trigger a rush of mHealth apps?

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration made reports and datasets publicly available, the agency also shared its hope that developers will use that information to create new apps. The OpenFDA ...
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FDA Launches New Program, openFDA

The FDA has launched openFDA, a new program that makes it easier for members of the public—including researchers and web developers—to access large, public health datasets collected by the FDA, the ...
FierceBiotech

FDA creates openFDA developer challenge

The FDA has challenged developers to create algorithms that identify spikes in adverse event data automatically. The challenge is one of several posted by the regulator to encourage developers to use ...
RAPS

OpenFDA Releases Huge Trove of Medical Device Data

On Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a vast amount of medical device data to its openFDA platform. The openFDA initiative was originally born from an order from the White ...
RAPS

One Year Into 'openFDA'

In June 2014, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a technology-driven "openFDA" initiative to make it easier to access and interpret the agency's publicly available data. The openFDA ...
eWeek

FDA Launches openFDA Initiative to Open Up Data Access

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...
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FDA’s openFDA Program Provides Better Access to Data Sets

Julian Kimble is an audience editor for CDW’s family of technology websites. Embracing transparency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used one of its platforms to make medical service data more ...
SFGate

OpenFDA a boon to medical device and drug startups

Over the past few years, medical device and drug startups have privately and not so privately painted the Food and Drug Administration as a graveyard for innovation. The agency, critics say, makes it ...
FierceBiotech

FDA tweaks openFDA to allow downloading of databases

The FDA has acted on requests from users to allow data it makes available through openFDA to be downloaded. The U.S. regulator revised the system late last year to enable users to download the data ...
FedScoop

OpenFDA issues challenge to developers

The Food and Drug Administration announced a new challenge meant to encourage developers to take advantage of openFDA, a public data project the agency unveiled nearly a year ago. It’s the agency’s ...