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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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Why Automate the Literature Monitoring Process?

A key concern for pharma companies is keeping a close eye on publications that might mention their product and its potential impact on the public. These publications can be extremely dense in volume, commanding careful review of multiple documents across several different sources...
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Digital Health’s Role in Improving Patient Engagement

​ In recent years, the patient journey has become more virtual, with patients seeking online information prior to engaging with healthcare providers (HCPs). Even as we transition back into traditional, in-person patient care, digital health is proving to be much more than just a...
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Pharmacovigilance

Expert-driven technologies are continually being implemented into the clinical process to eliminate manual burdens and ramp up efficiencies. AI-enabled automated systems help to remove the barriers that prevent high-quality data and compliance in reporting of clinical events....
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An Unlikely Perfect Pairing: Life Sciences & Translation

What Is Life Sciences Translation? Let’s first define the term “translation” within a life sciences context. Life sciences translation is the adaptation of clinical documentation and MedTech materials across different languages. While the concept may seem relatively simple, it...
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The Importance of Over-the-Phone Interpretation for Emergency Services

Imagine calling 911 in a state of crisis at the scene of an emergency situation, only to hear the call handler trying to understand you. And there’s nothing wrong with the connection—the poor communication is only because the person doesn’t speak your language.This kind of...
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Let’s Chat About Chatbots: Part 1

According to Valuates Reports, the conversational AI market is projected to reach $32.62 billion by 2030, up from $5.78 billion in 2020. While it is clear chatbots and their uses are growing, it’s important to understand what a chatbot is exactly, its uses and benefits, and...
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Let’s Chat About Chatbots: Part 2

In our last post, we discussed how business are deploying and benefiting from chatbots. Now that you have a basic understanding of what chatbots are and how they work, the next step is implementing them into your business model. For life sciences companies that are unsure of...
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Does a One-Stop-Shop Global Translation Provider Truly Exist?

Within the global translation market, there are over 200 global language service providers (LSPs), each reporting annual revenues larger than $1 million. Collectively, the 2020 revenue of all 200 companies equates to approximately $8 billion. All of these LSPs have...
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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...
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3 Translation Methodologies for Life Sciences Documentation

Translation is a complex endeavor, particularly in life sciences. Translation workflows, from receiving the document to delivering the final product, have multiple steps that must be followed with utmost accuracy.There is no one-size-fits-all model when translating clinical...
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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...
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How Life Sciences Companies Can Detect Adverse Events on Social Media

Pharmaceutical companies have historically relied on email correspondences, company websites, and physician hotlines as adverse event reporting channels. However, the incredibly high usage of social media means it is no longer a channel that can be ignored. Although safety...