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Where to Apply Machine Translation in Life Sciences Content Workstreams Right Now

In the life sciences industry, it’s increasingly essential to reduce cycle times and enhance operational efficiencies, especially across clinical and commercial team processes. To address evolving regulations from global health authorities and the common pain points of costs,...

The Imperative of Accurate Translations in Clinical Research

With the increase of global clinical trials, clinical documentation is required to be accurately translated at every stage from lab to launch. Despite the administrative burdens and tight regulatory timelines that clinical teams face, accuracy cannot be sacrificed in life science...

How Pharmacovigilance Automation Solutions Can Help You Meet Tight Regulatory Reporting Timelines

Pharmacovigilance (PV) teams play a critical role in detecting, assessing, understanding, and preventing the unintended adverse effects of medications and treatments. Their work, which includes drug reaction monitoring, drug safety surveillance, side effect monitoring,...

How to Improve the Speed and Accuracy of Patient Communications in Clinical Development

According to Phesi, more than a quarter of clinical trials conducted in 2023 were canceled during Phase II.  As clinical research teams struggle with patient recruitment and engagement under tight deadlines and immense regulatory pressure, patients also grapple with...

Implications of AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences: Ethical Considerations in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) models have already shown transformative potential in the life sciences industry, including automating administrative clinical research tasks, analyzing patient data to predict future health risks, synthesizing medical information, and more. ...

3 Ways to Leverage Generative AI in Pharmacovigilance

Despite the rigorous drug safety and efficacy standards in trials, study medicines can have unintended side effects on patients throughout the clinical trial journey and even in the post-market setting. To ensure patient safety and mitigate risk, global health regulatory...

4 Immediate Applications for AI Translation in Pharma

Precision and speed are key facets of success in the dynamic world of pharmaceutical development. To achieve these goals, AI-powered capabilities, such as machine translation (MT), can have a considerable and transformative impact.  Automated translation workstreams enable...

5 Key Considerations for Implementing Digital Technologies to Support Patients in China

Patient support is a hot topic in the life sciences space. Healthcare providers are consistently looking for ways to improve patient care and better support patients’ needs. In our previous post, we discussed how China was paving the way in leveraging digital health technologies...

Preparing Compliant eCTD Submissions in Asia

In May 2015, the US FDA published final and binding guidance requiring submission within 24 months of certain Common Technical Documents (CTDs) in an electronic format. This was ratified in 2017 and subsequently revised in February 2020 (Rev. 7). Currently, other notifying bodies...