Over the past few years, medical device and drug startups have privately and not so privately painted the Food and Drug Administration as a graveyard for innovation. The agency, critics say, makes it ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched openFDA, a database designed to make all of the department’s publicly available data easily accessible to app developers, researchers and others.

The FDA has launched openFDA, a new program that makes it easier for members of the public—including researchers and web developers—to access large, public health datasets collected by the FDA, the ...

The Food and Drug Administration announced a new challenge meant to encourage developers to take advantage of openFDA, a public data project the agency unveiled nearly a year ago. It’s the agency’s ...

The Food and Drug Administration announced it has made more data sets accessible through its openFDA program. Researchers now can use openFDA APIs, short for application programming interfaces, to ...

The FDA has challenged developers to create algorithms that identify spikes in adverse event data automatically. The challenge is one of several posted by the regulator to encourage developers to use ...

Within 24 hours of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's official unveiling its OpenFDA data, OpenFDA Search appeared. The idea behind the early version app, created by Social Health Insights, is ...

Even skeptics about the responsiveness of an organization as large as the FDA have had to admit that the agency’s first chief health informatics officer, Taha Kass-Hout, has shaken things up with the ...

Julian Kimble is an audience editor for CDW’s family of technology websites. Embracing transparency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used one of its platforms to make medical service data more ...

Through its OpenFDA program, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration now offers an Application Programming Interface to give developers and researchers access to data about recalls, according to a blog ...