Taha A. Kass-Hout MD

Health Innovation September 15, 2015

OpenFDA Makes Medical Device-Related Data Easier to Access and Use

By Taha Kass-Hout, Roselie A. Bright & Ann Ferriter – OpenFDA is releasing information on medical devices that could spur innovation and advance scientific research. OpenFDA’s Application Programming Interface (API) expands on the previous openFDA resources concerning medical device-related adverse events and recalls by incorporating information from the medical device product life cycle.

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Health Innovation, Informatics and Analytics August 11, 2015

Advancing Precision Medicine by Enabling a Collaborative Informatics Community

By Taha A. Kass-Hout, M.D., M.S., & David Litwack, Ph.D. – FDA plays an integral role in President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative, which foresees the day when an individual’s medical care will be tailored in part based on their unique characteristics and genetic make-up. Yet while more than 80 million genetic variants have been found in the human genome, we don’t understand the role that most of these variants play in health or disease.