Industries / Life Sciences

Drug Safety

Comprehensively monitor the safety profile of your medications

Regulatory authorities, patients, health care professionals, government officials and the media are increasing their scrutiny of life sciences companies based on continuing, high-profile drug safety issues. Highly publicized safety concerns and market withdrawals of commonly prescribed medications have focused increased attention on the issue of drug safety. Early detection and evaluation of safety concerns reduce the potential impact of a major public relations and liability issue. All therapies carry some risks, but by identifying those risks as early as possible, life sciences companies have the best opportunity to develop and implement an appropriate course of action.

" Consumer and regulatory pressure to improve the safety of marketed therapies are driving companies to adopt a more comprehensive, analytically driven view of a therapy’s complete lifecycle safety profile."

— Alan Louie, PhD

Research Director, IDC Health Insights

How SAS® Can Help

Companies are under increasing pressure to identify potential safety problems before they become apparent to clinicians, patients and regulatory authorities – and a threat to public health. With SAS, you can:

  • Aggregate and integrate drug safety data from virtually any source and then transform, cleanse and standardize the data so it is ready for further safety analysis and signal detection.
  • Drive better drug development decisions and mitigate potential post-marketing risks by applying advanced analytical methods and algorithms throughout a drug’s life cycle to proactively spot preapproval safety signals and emerging post-market safety concerns.
  • Uncover hidden insights in unstructured sources, such as call center notes, by using text mining capabilities to proactively scan unstructured text for insights on safety signals, customer concerns and service or product needs.
  • Tap into the true early-warning system that social media channels may provide by applying text mining and analytics to real-time social media data about your medications.

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How SAS® Is Different

SAS ensures accurate, consistent and reliable analysis of biopharmaceutical safety data and information. Only SAS provides:

  • Comprehensive data management. SAS eases access to standard, trusted safety data regardless of format, computing platform or location.
  • World-class analytics. While less rigorous analytics work for certain applications, the critical nature of drug safety demands the best analytics available. SAS provides the best analytic and reporting technologies for drug safety evaluation.
  • Domain expertise. SAS has invested heavily in domain experts who understand the critical nature of drug safety.

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