The story of how Lean Pharma accelerated safety case detection, reduced manual review workload, and improved pharmacovigilance efficiency with DrugCard’s AI-powered literature screening and ICSR detection capabilities.
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Overcoming the Limitations of Manual Literature Screening
As literature volumes continued to grow, Lean Pharma faced increasing pressure to maintain efficiency and compliance:
- Reviewing each article manually took around 25 minutes, consuming valuable pharmacovigilance resources.
- High-volume projects strained operational capacity and complicated quality control activities.
- Extensive manual review efforts yielded no detected safety cases, raising concerns about the effectiveness of traditional screening processes.
Transforming Literature Screening with AI-Powered Automation
To overcome these challenges, Lean Pharma integrated DrugCard into its pharmacovigilance workflow, automating key stages of literature screening and safety case detection. The platform provided:
- Automated screening and categorisation of scientific literature.
- AI-assisted relevance detection to prioritise articles requiring review.
- Quality control tools with intelligent sample size management.
- Access to an adverse reaction database with AI-powered ICSR detection capabilities.
- Support for local-language searches and optimised keyword strategies to improve coverage and case identification.
DrugCard Delivered a 93% Reduction in Article Review Time
With DrugCard, Lean Pharma significantly transformed its pharmacovigilance workflow:
- Review time was reduced from ~25 minutes to ~3 minutes per article, resulting in a 93% reduction in processing time.
- 1,087 articles were processed and categorised over the year, replacing hundreds of hours of manual review.
- 0 consistency gaps in reporting due to standardised, auditable workflows across all activities.
- 3 users successfully managed 6 concurrent projects using a centralised dashboard, without additional headcount.
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