Medical Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Medical writers are professionals who come from diverse scientific backgrounds, including medicine, pharmacy, and biology, among others. They play an essential role in the Life Sciences industry as they are involved in processes, such as authoring of clinical study reports (CSRs). CSRs are documents submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other regulatory agencies, such as the European Medicines Agency (EMA). But how does artificial intelligence (AI) influence the role of medical writers, and what kind of tools can empower them? Let’s journey together to explore more: Medical Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

AI and medical writers

AI and its related software have garnered significant attention in the past few years since the release of the large language model called generative pre-trained transformer-3 (or GPT-3 for short). AI-driven tools offer significant value across various industries, including medical writing. In this area, the use of generative AI has been shown to save medical writers hundreds of hours of bothersome, repetitive work. Specifically, the authoring of a CSR and its parts, like patient narratives, could be automated using generative AI technologies so that medical writers can very quickly generate initial drafts and modify and produce reiterations of documents with just a few clicks. Why is this important? Because with such technology, medical writers will have more time to attend to critical tasks and projects that utilize their full potential instead of consuming their time and skill in tasks of repetitive nature.

Augmenting the potential of medical writers with AI tools

ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies offer great potential in authoring large volumes of text. However, such software is not optimized for the work that medical writers do. Specifically, these tools, in their current form, cannot make connections between various databases and patient data points to generate an outcome that fits the criteria of CSR and other clinical documents—let alone safeguard personally identifiable information (PII). In addition, ChatGPT is liable to hallucinations, leading to the creation of text that might sound correct but actually is not. So, are there other technologies that could assist what medical writers can do?

YES! For nearly a decade, Narrativa has offered a suite of generative AI software that has been built, tested, and proven to function optimally and aid those who engage in medical writing tasks. Over the years and by working with top medical writing teams in the industry, Narrativa’s platforms have become incredibly refined and more and more sophisticated. With their help, we have in return managed to provide them with a tool that maximizes their potential in their field by assisting them with their day-to-day efforts and in the end, gives them back time in their workdays.

In addition to the time-saving benefits that the tools offer in terms of authoring, our partners’ medical writers have reported that our suite of technologies has helped them improve their quality control check of the generated outcomes. This is because Narrativa’s Life Science solutions are continuously optimized to perfectly meet the needs of medical writers by highlighting inconsistencies in the databases and outcomes that medical writers utilize to create and author clinical and scientific documents.

By now, we understand that generative AI technologies are not here to replace medical writers but to augment their activities. In turn, the demand for scientific writers who are well-versed in digital and AI technologies will continue to grow. You can contact us to learn how we can help augment your medical writing team’s workload with our generative AI solutions.

Does Narrativa offer other solutions?

Yes! Narrativa updates and adds to its ever-expanding toolbox of solutions all the time as we continuously work to meet the growing needs of the Life Sciences industry. In addition to CSR authoring tools, Narrativa offers solutions that automate the creation of Tables, Listings, and Figures. With this automation, our partners’ medical writing teams have reported significant improvement in efficiency and time. This is because the authoring process could start within a few minutes of creating TLFs when using our platform. When combined together, our suite of generative AI technologies augments what medical writers and other people involved in clinical research can do. It translates into saving hundreds of days of work and redirecting their efforts toward more critical projects. Also, Narrativa offers other solutions that save a great deal of time and effort, such as the anonymization and redaction tool.

It’s important to note that Narrativa, through partnering with those in the Life Sciences industry, is always listening to your feedback. If you have something in mind that would help your team work faster and more efficiently, let our team make it a reality!

About Narrativa

Narrativa is an internationally recognized B2B content services company that believes people and artificial intelligence are better together. Through its proprietary generative AI content automation platform, teams of all types and sizes are empowered to build and deploy smart composition, business intelligence reporting, and process optimization content solutions for internal and external audiences alike. 

Its tech stack, consisting of data extraction, data analysis, natural language processing (NLP), and natural language generation (NLG) tools, all seamlessly work together to produce content quickly and at scale. In this way, Narrativa supports the growth of businesses across a variety of industries, while also saving them both time and money. Accelerate the potential with Narrativa.

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