Narrativa’s solutions for life sciences support medical writers!

Since the release of Generative pre-trained transformer 3 (GPT-3), ChatGPT, and other subsequent language models and chatbots, many professionals, including medical writers, have started considering the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on their jobs. The big question is: Should those involved in clinical trial reporting, such as medical writers, worry? Long story short, no. Let’s find out why!

Narrativa automates tasks, not jobs

Before planning our life sciences industry solutions, like Tables, Lists, and Figures (TLFs), patient narratives, or the anonymization and redaction tool, we spent time assessing what the professionals involved in clinical trial data collection, processing, and reporting spent their time on. The results of our analysis showed that everyone from statistical programmers and biostatisticians to medical writers expended most of their time and effort on time-consuming tasks of a repetitive nature. This prompted us to think of how we can tackle such a challenge and help companies fully utilize the potential of those professionals. Let’s use medical writers as an example.  

Medical writers have medically-related educational backgrounds and contribute across the life sciences industry, including regulatory reporting. Files, such as clinical study reports (CSRs), are prepared by medical writers as part of submission packages that are presented to regulatory authorities, like the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Patient narratives, a part of the CSR, are chronological summaries of adverse events (AEs) occurring in a study subject. Reported AEs include those that are serious, of special interest, or leading to death.

When we observed and discussed with our partners’ medical writing teams, we understood that patient narratives were a time-consuming and tedious job. This encouraged us to utilize our generative AI technology to automate the task. Today, we have a fully functional patient narrative solution that our clients’ medical writers enjoy having. Why?

Because they can generate patient narratives with just a few clicks, medical writers are spared hundreds of hours sifting through various reports, processing data, and engaging in frequent back-and-forth interactions with stakeholders from different departments to produce similar outcomes. In addition, medical writers can adapt our patient narrative solution to fit a prespecified template, making it an ideal assistant for them in finalizing this kind of task. This way, medical writers will have more time to attend to more demanding projects and duties.

Adopting AI yields returns for the workforce and businesses alike

The eventual outcome of adopting AI in automating patient narratives for medical writers is augmenting their capacity by sparing them hours upon hours of repetitive jobs. For businesses, the benefits reaped from utilizing AI will be in the form of an improvement in financial returns since time and resource allocation will better address strategic business goals, rather than exhausting the workforce with tasks that could be automated with minimal supervision.

About Narrativa

Narrativa is an internationally recognized content services company that uses its proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning platforms to build and deploy digital content solutions for enterprises. Its technology suite, consisting of data extraction, data analysis, natural language processing (NLP) and natural language generation (NLG) tools, all seamlessly work together to power a lineup of smart content creation, automated business intelligence reporting and process optimization products for a variety of industries.

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