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 ...

The FDA is continuing to push ahead with its openFDA initiative, with this week's rollout of an application programming interface (API) for recall data coming a month after its adverse event system ...

The FDA has acted on requests from users to allow data it makes available through openFDA to be downloaded. The U.S. regulator revised the system late last year to enable users to download the data ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In June 2014, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a technology-driven "openFDA" initiative to make it easier to access and interpret the agency's publicly available data. The openFDA ...

The FDA, through its ongoing openFDA project, recently released a new API that will allow users to search for adverse event reports on medical devices going back to 1992. “The API can be a powerful ...

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 ...