Loading ...U.S. Will Track Vaccine Injuries in ‘Real-Time’ Using Electronic Patient Records
The new system is designed to address shortcomings in the two government-run vaccine safety monitoring systems — VAERS and the Vaccine Safety Datalink — which an HHS spokesperson said have become “templates of regulatory malpractice.”
Under the new plan, the FDA will use Health Information Exchanges (HIE), which will use data from electronic health records and enable the real-time monitoring of vaccine safety signals. HIE’s enable “sharing of electronic health information among healthcare providers, hospitals, clinics and other authorized entities.” “With electronic health records, the system flags patterns as they happen — like unusual clusters of myocarditis or autoimmune flares — rather than waiting for someone to fill out a form weeks later,”
The new system will help the FDA respond faster to potential safety signals and compare vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts “to detect excess risk and adjust for confounding factors — something VAERS cannot do without external data linkage.”
No mention in this article of “Anonymizing the electronic data” so if it’s real live information – than it also provides instantaneous track of every individual’s health records – privacy becomes a separate discussion…….