Six Key Principles From The World Health Organization (WHO) On The Use Of AI In Healthcare

By Dr. Alexandra Thoenes, MD, Senior Project Safety Physician

These days, more and more companies employ automation technology in pharmacovigilance processes. The resource-intensive industry of pharmacovigilance and clinical safety is constantly looking to streamline processes with the help of software providers to reduce the costs of manual processes and increase program efficiency.

This very topic has attracted the attention of the WHO, who recognize the potential for streamlined pharmacovigilance case processing workloads, to have a computer extract relevant information from large databases to produce aggregate reports, or to have a machine decrypt handwritten reports. Artificial intelligence can indeed help to improve quality and efficiency but will remain a complement to human input.