Healthcare Database Networks for Drug Regulatory Policies: International Workshop on the Canadian, US and Spanish Experience and Future Steps for Italy.

The article offers information on the Italian Drug Agency organized a workshop on the role of healthcare databases in supporting drug regulatory agencies in their pre- and post-marketing regulatory activities in April 2019. It mentions that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Sentinel System is a distributed data system. It also mentions that Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies uses a distributed database network.