Watch: Top FDA official talks bringing the agency into a new age
When Dr. Amy Abernethy arrived at the Food and Drug Administration last year, the former Flatiron health executive saw an urgent need for the agency to embrace technology and update its infrastructure.
“We’re not necessarily prepared to both marshal in the world of digital medicine, and how we’re going to push forward with using data and technology differently, nor were we really prepared as an agency to be able to accelerate what we do using data and technology,” said Abernethy, the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner of food and drugs, at the STAT Summit in Cambridge, Mass., late last year.
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