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What a Bristol Myers Squibb project to monitor off-label prescribing says about future uses of A.I.

Like all pharmaceutical companies, Bristol-Myers Squibb is required to conduct “post-market surveillance.” That is, once a drug is approved and being sold, the company needs to know if any patients are experiencing adverse reactions or unusual side effects that didn’t crop up during the clinical trials. It also needs to be on alert for signs that the medicine is being prescribed “off-label” […]

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How a biopharmaceutical company evaluated social media to monitor off-label drug use

Cortical.io created a prototype based on SemanticPro Classify & Automate to identify mentions of on- and off-label medication usage in a static set of Reddit posts. Leveraging Cortical.io meaning-based algorithms, the application automatically and accurately filters and classifies Reddit messages and summarizes the results. Cortical.io trained classifiers for each of the example drugs specified by the company using publicly available information.

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