Health care records are valuable data sources that can complement spontaneous reports. Experts from pioneering international initiatives will share experiences and discuss challenges and lessons learned from preliminary efforts using electronic health records (EHR) for signal detection.

Learning Objectives:
Define what constitutes electronic health care data and the characteristics that make it useful for signal detection
Discuss challenges and opportunities that come with use of EHR data
Summarize how signal detection using EHR may play a role in current pharmacovigilance.