Califf Pushes For Modern National Evidence Generation System

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf advocates creation of a modern national evidence generation system that can support medical product evaluation and clinical care decisions. The newly-minted FDA chief says creation of such a system could greatly drop the cost of evidence generation, and points to Kaiser Permanente’s creation of an analytics center across its healthcare system based on the agency’s Sentinel system as an example. Califf's comments Tuesday (April 19) at an Alliance for a Stronger FDA meeting came hours after...