“We cannot change the authoring experience.” This, more than anything else, is the message we used to be told (and still hear often) when we suggest a component-based structured authoring environment for medical writers at pharmaceutical companies. The authoring experience using Microsoft Word reigns supreme. Any changes to this interface
The pharma industry is no stranger to standards. Pharmaceutical companies have entire teams devoted to ensuring that all data and content is collected, created, managed, retained, and retired according to regulatory requirements.
Using component-based structured content authoring and having a robust reuse strategy is the only way to produce pharma content at scale. It’s how you produce accurate content efficiently across the enterprise. It’s how you deliver the right content to the right place at the right time, such as when you
The pharma industry has come together to develop technical solutions that speed time-consuming processes and reduce errors that can cause risk to the business and ultimately to patients.
Most content challenges are ubiquitous, present in every vertical. Processes that don’t scale. Too much content to manage and yet the exact right content never seems to be at hand. Authors must copy and paste and (inevitably) tweak content, wasting time and increasing risk. The challenges of time, cost, and
The COVID-19 pandemic put tremendous pressure on drug-development organizations to accelerate product development far beyond anyone’s wildest roadmaps.