DrugLogic introduces Qscan-RM drug safety tracking system

RESTON, Va. DrugLogic has a new product, Qscan-RM, which will combine public data, internal data and drug safety information.

Drug safety risk management and the processes whereby companies manage the various issues that arise in drug safety (“Signal Management”, regulatory responses, among others) are often spread across various staff members who address these issues. Best practices in alerting, workflow management, document preparation and risk assessment techniques (including risk mapping) have evolved and are expected as part of a drug company’s responsibilities to manage risk. The Qscan-RM solution will expedite and ease the implementation of a major system to support this function.

The heart of the new solution consists of three components: a DrugLogic-hosted secure application and data storage system with all client specific data segregated on dedicated servers; a set of ‘templates’ for workflow, coding, alerting analysis and reporting, that can be adapted, changed, refined and saved by the users; and a system of load facilities that has resulted in a maximum client data mapping time of one week.

“The ‘templating’ approach,” according to Long Doan, chief architect of DrugLogic, “avoids the pitfalls of hardwired solutions and allows users to see and modify the processes in the system. In the past, many of these were difficult to understand and change. Just load a template, and you see immediately what the system is going to do for you.”

The product is expected to be available in the second half of first quarter 2008.