The story of how Polpharma, one of the largest Polish pharmaceutical manufacturers operating in Ukraine for over 20 years, streamlined local pharmacovigilance literature monitoring with DrugCard.
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Pressing Challenges in Safety Surveillance
Polpharma’s pharmacovigilance workflow faced several persistent challenges:
- High volumes of literature require manual screening, making local market monitoring difficult to sustain.
- A time-consuming manual review process (~25 minutes per article) delays timely safety signal detection.
- Ensuring full compliance with Ukrainian pharmacovigilance regulations, including proper documentation and audit readiness.
Unlocking Smarter Pharmacovigilance with DrugCard
To overcome these challenges, Polpharma implemented DrugCard’s automated local literature monitoring solution, bringing speed, precision, and consistency into its pharmacovigilance workflow. Key capabilities driving the transformation included:
- AI-powered relevance detection, enabling intelligent triage of articles and faster identification of safety-relevant content.
- Integrated access to local and regional scientific journals, ensuring comprehensive coverage of Ukrainian and broader regional publications.
- QC reports and compliance checks to ensure consistent oversight.
From Manual Burden to Scalable Pharmacovigilance Intelligence
DrugCard delivered a measurable transformation in both operational performance and strategic PV capability at Polpharma:
- A total of 8,262 articles were processed, and 18 safety-relevant cases were identified, categorised, and archived to ensure compliance and support signal monitoring.
- Despite limited resources, the PV team maintained full regulatory compliance, while automation significantly reduced article review time and eliminated manual screening bottlenecks.
- Overall, DrugCard strengthened long-term pharmacovigilance performance by ensuring compliance with Ukrainian requirements and enabling a stronger focus on signal detection and safety evaluation.
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