Benefits of AI and Automation in Pharma


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Investment in AI and automation is drastically increasing in the pharmaceutical industry. AI and automation can streamline digital processes and workflows in clinical development, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, and many more.

Pharmaceutical giants are leveraging intelligent automation to automate their drug discovery process, cancer research and patient care improvement, accelerate research in metabolic-disease therapies, drug trial discovery, etc. Organizations observe a vast change in their working process, including cost reduction.

Need for AI and Automation in Pharma

Automation in Pharmacy is not a new development, as many pharma companies have integrated automation into their processes since 1960. However, recent development in an automated system with AI and ML technology has escalated automation in pharma and healthcare.

The healthcare system is highly fragmented and continuously faces new threats and outbreaks. Pharma businesses face several challenges in bringing a new drug to the market, like data collation, complex protocol design, time-taking clinical trials, drug manufacturing, regulatory approvals, etc.

The drug development and approval driven by clinical trials require gathering a vast amount of data. The traditional approach involves a manual & repetitive process and is time-consuming, such as entering patient data in multiple systems, validating trial data, and submitting results to regulatory agencies.

Supplier onboarding is a lengthy and problematic process involving supplier data collection, determining their adherence to compliance regulations, and managing vendor management. The regulatory affairs department faces challenges in manually collecting documents, verification of regulatory standards, and submission to regulatory agencies. All these processes are time-consuming and fraught with errors.

Automation with AI technology helps streamline these time-consuming and cumbersome manual processes and eliminate inevitable human errors.

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Ways AI and Automation Is Benefiting the Pharma Industry

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The application of AI and automation in pharma ranges across various stages of development, starting from discovering the needs and ending with patient support, dosage control, ongoing post-market research, and analysis of treatment results. 

The major areas where AI and automation bring value to Pharma Industry are

Drug Discovery and Development

AI supports drug discovery activities like target identification, drug design, and drug repurposing. 

Laboratory automation in pharma improves- the precision, compliance, and replicability of results. Some of the automated machines and software are automated liquid handling systems, electronic lab notebooks, laboratory information management systems, etc. 

AI application improves pre-clinical and early-stage drug discovery, late-stage drug candidates, small molecule therapists, novel drug design, and novel biological targets. 

  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

AI and automation in pharma manufacturing make production more efficient, have faster output, and have less waste. 

The use of automation solutions and equipment like dryers and granulators, tablet compression and coating systems, conveyor and sorting systems, agitators, inspection, etc., eases the processing system. 

  • Biomedical and Clinical Data Processing

AI makes it easy to validate or discard a hypothesis. It helps to gather and cross-reference valuable visual, qualitative, and quantitative data collected in clinical studies. The information on when a patient takes a drug, medications, and reactions can be collected and interpreted.  

AI Clinical data management using tools like Hadoop-based platforms, cloud services, etc., helps manage information on clinical trials, clinical research, patient profile, etc.

  • Pharmacovigilance

Automation in pharmacovigilance uses cognitive technologies such as ML and advanced analytics. It transforms the legacy data compilation processes and information gathering for regulatory approval. The technology gets modeled to improve practices like drug risk-benefit profile assessment, methods for selecting optimal treatments, and increase overall patient safety through product quality.

  • Regulatory Affairs
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AI as a tool centralizes the information on critical regulatory updates, analyses new and existing laws, and ensures compliance with marketing, legal, and technical documentation. Using AI, companies can provide pharmaceutical regulatory affairs professionals with alerts on the latest global, federal, and state legislation. The regulatory bodies can assess the market medications and develop well-informed strategies.

AI and Automation-Critical for Pharma to Remain Competitive

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AI and automation have become critical for the pharma sector to gain a competitive edge. Automation technology, Robotic process automation, AI, and ML supports the industry in identifying a disease, discovering and manufacturing drugs, clinical trials, predictive forecasts, and boosting sales.

DefineRight, with business enablement services, helps pharma companies transform and optimize their processes and operations. The personalized AI and automation solutions of DefineRight, strategically streamline your work process from drug discovery, manufacturing, and supply chain to compliance.


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