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𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨? 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐲 24𝐭𝐡. 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞!

𝐓𝐡𝐞 7 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 👻 Want to speed up your writing process? Good idea! But try to avoid the following common mistakes. ☠ 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦. Wondering if there's a more modern way to organize AE tables than plowing through dozens of pages with a highlighter? Randomly throwing a language model at it will just waste your time. Better start with a detailed description of your problem. This will give you a basis for communication with experts. ☠ 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐥. There are a number of companies that have been dealing with topics like the automation of clinical study reports, CSRs, for years: Yseop, Narrativa Generative AI, and of course, we at Eloquest, to name just a few. Get in touch and see what's already available or who could help you with their expertise. ☠ 𝐁𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲. Unfortunately, medical writing is too complex for that. ☠ 𝐈𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞𝐬. This not only scares your employees but also harms software development. You can't afford developers to develop past the users. ☠ 𝐁𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬. It goes without saying. ☠ 𝐀𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚. Sorry to break it to you, but the chances are good that your dataset is not comprehensive enough to fully represent the affected document type. Business logic and internal agreements are all too often not documented in the input data. ☠ 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭. It may be that your automation project has the potential to revolutionize the medical writing industry in the long run. But to reap the benefits in the near future, don't lose contact to planet earth. Happy Halloween 💘 !

𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐆𝐏𝐓. When we launched Eloquest in January 2023, I was often asked whether we had any concerns about starting an #NLP company right in the middle of the #ChatGPT hype. And yes, I deliberately write "ChatGPT" and not "AI" because, back then as now, the focus was never on "AI" in general, but rather on the 1-3 currently trending, freely available tools. As an NLP company, we were—and still are—naturally often placed in the #GenAI corner. My response at the time was usually something like, "Huh? Why? We're doing something completely different." That was honest, it was true, and it still is. Seven quarters later, however, I’m well aware of the challenges that have emerged for companies like Eloquest. And they’re coming from a different angle than one might expect. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦. ChatGPT was marketed as a cure-all or, at the very least, celebrated in the media as such. Everything even remotely related to text could supposedly be accelerated with it. For free, or if you wanted to make a bit of an effort, with affordable subscription plans in the range of 20-30 euros. By now, most people have realized that ChatGPT is not a cure-all and that complex business cases cannot simply be solved with #LLMs alone. But I find it harder to convey in 2024 than in 2022 that there are indeed digitalization options for complex business cases, though they need to be built first. When I sit in sales meetings, I often encounter the following mindset: 𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐧-𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐆𝐏𝐓 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎-𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨-𝐚-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. How is that supposed to work? Solutions that don’t exist yet need to be developed first. While I keep harping on the need for broader general education about software development and AI, I’m not really sure how we can support that anymore: Do we need figureheads like Aleph Alpha to generate interest? Should mass media take more responsibility here? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤?

𝐖𝐞𝐧𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐫 𝐯𝐨𝐧 "𝐃𝐨𝐤𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐠" 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧, 𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐮𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐭. 

𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥?

𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐄𝐥𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. Microsoft Co-Pilot Pro costs private users 22 euros and companies 28 euros per person. The basic version can be used for free. #ChatGPT is also free of charge. Depending on your needs, you can use paid options, which are also around 20 US dollars. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭?

𝐖𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭. 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐭. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰?

𝐁𝐞𝐢 𝐄𝐥𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐄𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐤𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧. Bei welchen Dokumenttypen sich eine Automatisierung lohnt, ist wie so oft abhängig vom Zeitaufwand, der betrieben werden muss, um selbige manuell bereitzustellen und von der Häufigkeit, mit der der jeweilige Dokumenttyp auftritt.

𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐀𝐈 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲? 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬!

𝐄𝐥𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐦 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐆𝐫ü𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 2024! Wir freuen uns, am 12.9. in Marburg mit der Automatisierung von Schreibprozessen in der klinischen Dokumentation in der Kategorie "Innovative Geschäftsidee" an den Start gehen zu dürfen. #medicalwritingautomation #hgp24 #regtech