FDA 利用大数据追踪制药欺诈

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预测分析——被归类于“大数据”这个时髦的旗帜之下——是一套备受瞩目的技术,它能够驾驭数字洪流,从而推断出新的疫情正在爆发,或者最后一刻的廉价机票刚刚出现。 然而,大数据的最佳用途可能尚未到来。

FDA 刚刚发布了一份招标书,一份报价请求,旨在寻找一家承包商来梳理药品制造商的支出,包括从电话到教育宣传材料等所有内容,以找出公司推销未获监管批准用途的药物的情况。 获得批准的承包商将向 FDA 的刑事调查办公室实时提供这些信息。 对这些服务存在潜在需求,因为 FDA 即使没有能力调动所需水平的分析,近年来也发现了一些惊人的案例:葛兰素史克公司因推销超适应症药物而不得不支付 30 亿美元:抗抑郁药安非他酮用于减肥和性功能障碍就是一个例子。

这正是大数据变得有趣的地方。


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Gary Stix, senior editor of mind and brain topics at 大众科学, edits and reports on emerging advances that have propelled brain science to the forefront of the biological sciences. Stix has edited or written cover stories, feature articles and news on diverse topics, ranging from what happens in the brain when a person is immersed in thought to the impact of brain implant technology that alleviates mood disorders such as depression. Before taking over the neuroscience beat, Stix, as 大众科学's special projects editor, was responsible for the magazine's annual single-topic special issues, conceiving of and producing issues on Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, climate change and nanotechnology. One special issue he oversaw on the topic of time in all of its manifestations won a National Magazine Award. With his wife Miriam Lacob, Stix is co-author of a technology primer called Who Gives a Gigabyte? A Survival Guide for the Technologically Perplexed.

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