COVID-19 is leading to a plethora of real-world data projects at both the US Food and Drug Administration and in the private sector, ranging from research to try and anticipate oncoming shortages to studies of what approved treatments might be helping patients. Beyond the immediate utility of the research, FDA is also hopeful the urgent nature of the pandemic may finally be the push needed to encourage the adoption of interoperable data coding standards throughout the country.
FDA is relying on real-world data projects to elucidate COVID-19’s natural history, to track drug shortages during the crisis, and...