PHARMACOVIGILANCE AND USE OF TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

Introduction: Pharmacovigilance is the science of monitoring the effects of medicinal products with the aim of identifying and evaluating  potential adverse reactions. Recent technological advances in the areas of artificial intelligence automation have profound implications for medicine and in the discovery, development and post-marketing phases of life cycle of pharmaceutical medicines. Pharmacovigilance systems are supported by secure closed relational databases. These databases are often linked to data ware house and advanced tools to enable the retrieval reporting and visualization of data in support of signal detection and risk management.

Objectives: Significant challenges and opportunities when designing, deploying and utilization of IT in pharmacovigilance systems

Methods and materials: Articles about Pharmacovigilance in PUBMED, GOOGLE SCHOLAR using the keywords Pharmacovigilance, Information technology, Artificial intelligence

Result: The technologies identified has potential to yield efficiencies and improvements of quality not only for ICSR, also in the context of aggregate reporting, signal detection, risk management and the Quality Management System for the pharmacovigilance systems

Conclusion: Rapid development of technologies has the potential to reduce cycle times, improve quality, create efficacies and reduce costs, all of which lead to better allocation of resource