MedWatcher Keeps You Up-to-Date With Drug Safety Reports

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed an iPhone application that keeps you up-to-date with drug safety reports and allows you to submit any side effects directly to the FDA. The app, called MedWatcher can keep a list of medications for which you receive both official FDA alerts and news from other channels. Users can report side effects straight from the app and view other submitted reports. The researchers hope to lower the barrier to reporting side effects, increasing the participation in safety surveillance. Reports of serious adverse events are reviewed by members of the Children’s Computational Epidemiology Group and then submitted to the FDA. The app was developed using technology from the Outbreaks Near Me app, which we covered one year ago.
Press release: New iPhone app, “MedWatcher,” to support real-time drug safety surveillance…
Homepage: MedWatcher
iTunes link: MedWatcher: Drug Safety Reporting…