Sentinel Will Benefit From Administration's Health IT Push
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The Obama administration's emphasis on wiring health care comes at a key time for FDA's Sentinel postmarketing medical product safety monitoring project, according to Commissioner Margaret Hamburg
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