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EU Panel Sets Ambitious Big Data Workplan

 
• By Vibha Sharma

An EU group has listed several ambitious projects to help EU regulators realize their cherished vision of using big data capabilities to support innovation and public health. But these proposals may take a backseat as COVID-19-related challenges continue.

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A steering group set up by medicines regulators in the EU to help harness the potential of big data in regulatory decision-making has outlined several ambitious projects and tasks that it would like to see being delivered in 2020-21. The implementation of these actions may be postponed, however, as regulators focus on responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The action points were identified by the EU Big Data Steering Group, which was set up by the European Medicines Agency and the EU’s Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) in February to help implement the 10 priority recommendations that the EMA-HMA Big Data Task Force issued earlier this year

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