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Edaptive Systems wins $40M FDA prime award

The Owings Mills, Md., health care IT provider will help the consumer watchdog agency by maintaining and supporting existing systems and providing upgrades as needed.

  • By David Hubler

FDA proposes regulating mobile health apps

For the first time, federal regulators are scrutinizing the mobile health applications market.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Government learns social media has a double edge

The public knows where to find your Facebook page and they're increasingly ready to use it to let you know what they think. Are you listening?

Japan and our response -- some questions

How will America's ability to help other countries in crisis change in an era of spending cuts? And what does that do to our global image?

  • By Michael Hardy

Former FDA CIO joins 2020 Company

Lori Davis, formerly CIO at the Food and Drug Administration, has joined 2020 Company LLC as senior vice president of health care.

  • By David Hubler

ICF wins IT support award for FDA toxicological center

ICF International Inc. will continue to provide information technology services to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under a five-year, $31.8 million recompete contract.

  • By David Hubler

FDA launches 40 online performance management dashboards

The Food and Drug Administration has started its online performance management system that tracks agency performance measures on 40 Web-based dashboards.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Food safety legislation may ladle IT money to FDA

Sen. Durbin's bill would increase trace-back and surveillance of food-borne illness data but lacks specifics on how it would be done.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Food-safety, public health surveillance IT highlight FDA fiscal 2011 budget request

The Food and Drug Administration wants a 23 percent increase in its budget for fiscal 2011 in part to expand several information technology programs.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Harvard Pilgrim to support FDA monitoring efforts

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has won a contract from the FDA to set up a prototype of a national monitoring system for drug and device safety that will collect automated data from providers and insurers.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

FDA readies new data systems for drug safety

The Food and Drug Administration will expand its tracking of drug safety once the drugs enter the marketplace, according to a new report.

  • By Alice Lipowicz
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