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Real-World Data Partnership On COVID-19: US FDA Drawn To Consistency, Diversity of Aetion's Datasets

 
• By Sarah Karlin-Smith

FDA's Amy Abernethy tells the Pink Sheet that initial priorities are likely to include studying COVID-19 natural history and how patients are faring under various medication regimens. Aetion's ability to perform consistent analyses across a variety of data sets was key for FDA in selecting the the partnership, which grew from Reagan-Udall Foundation and Friends of Cancer Research's Evidence Accelerator project.

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FDA is embarking on a new real-world data partnership with Aetion to advance its understanding of COVID-19 • Source: Shutterstock

The US Food and Drug Administration announced a new COVID-19 real-world data partnership with Aetion this week, a collaboration that was attractive to the regulatory agency because of Aetion’s ability to provide consistent analysis across multiple different data sets, Principal Deputy Commissioner and Acting Chief Information Officer Amy Abernethy told the Pink Sheet.

The Aetion platform provides “a mechanism for consistent analysis of different real-world data sets so that then we can then...

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