FDA Faces More Tech Hurdles After Clearing AERs Backlog, And Congress Is Watching
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Congressional scrutiny of FDA’s overall document management challenges is unlikely to let up despite the agency’s clearing of its adverse event reports backlog. Rep. Michael Burgess hit FDA’s document management practices hard during the first formal hearing on the 21sy Century Cures initiative.
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