Discussion

Why Pharmacovigilance should use comprehensive search over Google 🔍

In pharmacovigilance and drug related activities, your focus should be on comprehensiveness and inclusion criteria rather than a relevant top ten of results that cannot be explained.

Case Study

How Cinclus Pharma ensured searchability of references with PapersHive for GERD

Cinclus Pharma started using PapersHive centralizing search (PubMed and Clinical Trials), reference management and AI analytics in a end-to-end solution.

Discussion

🚀 3 proven methods to leverage clinical-market insights

1. Filter by industry and academia 2. Filter by phases. 3. Filter by MeSH.

Discussion

😣 6 most common errors in Literature Search Strategies affecting recall.

1. Incorrect use of Boolean operators 2. Lack of parenthesis 3. Lack of morphological variations 4. Missing MeSH terms 5. Non-proper MeSH tags 6. Miss synonyms

Case Study

Norwin massively reduced time spent on searching literature with PapersHive

Norwin Zuidema spent countless hours searching about specific topics, finding the most relevant literature, and stay up to date with trends. – I was delving into a new subject and reading lots of new literature, which was taking cumbersome amounts of time to filter what was relevant and what was not.

Discussion

🥊 Google Scholar vs PubMed

When performing a medical literature review you should use PubMed or PapersHive. Use Google Scholar for lookup searches and quick explorations.

Discussion

🤯 How to put you in the top 6% of PubMed experts

A study analyzed PubMed’s log data and identified differences between expert and non expert users. To become better at PubMed you should start using MeSH terms, Advanced Search, use the search functions, field-tags and domain knowledge. These alone would put you to the top 6%.

Discussion

⬇️ How a Reference Manager works, Part I: Importing

The first part in building a Reference Manager is the Import. This phase focuses on taking a user input and transforming it into a list of pre-references.

Discussion

🔎 The Best Medical Search Engine According to Your Need

There is no such thing as the best Medical Search Engine. Though we have started noticing patterns when it comes to which area or need each medical professional has. And the best engine associated to it!

Discussion

🤔 How does PubMed work behind the curtains?

PubMed left TF-IDF and started using BestMatch: a two-stages ranking system based on BM25 to gather the first batch of documents, and a Learning-to-Rank model to re-rank the top 500.

Discussion

💰 Handling duplicates is costly. But how much? What can you do about it?

When performing a Systematic Literature Review, 56.9% of the initial data could be duplicated. This could cost a bioresearch and pharma company from €224 for an employee to €1,000 per contractor for each screening activity. And well beyond €10k when performing SLR. Unless you have it automated.

Discussion

💵 When is it convenient to buy automation in the Drug-to-Market Journey?

You might wonder when is automation useful in your Life Science pipeline for automated screening. In a price-per-seat model, that is €875 divided by the wanted ROI. In an Enterprise model it is up to the number of scientists.

Case Study Featured

How Lab Consultancy Group went from days of research to minutes without losing in quality

Lab Consultancy Group (LCG) is a British company providing scientific consulting. They used to spend days and weeks gathering medical data points, with PapersHive the time spent shrunk to hours.

Discussion

Can AI be trusted for Adverse Effects Case Processing from Regulatory Authorities?

AI on Adverse Effects is usually trained on annotated data. Making it resource and capital intensive. What if we benchmark with models trained on source documents instead?

Discussion

4 steps you could easily automate in your Pharmacovigilance and Monitoring processes

Your team can shrink a week of manual work in just a few hours. By iterating with 7 of our core customers, we identified 4 steps that could easily automated when performing Pharmacovigilance and Clinical / Monitoring processes thanks to AI and RPA.

Discussion

Why isn’t Google the most used search engine in Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Evidence?

We asked 116 medical professionals which search engine they use and for which task. Google was not on the top for medical related activities due to explainability, transparency and privacy.

Interview

Why Automation is needed in Life Science - A conversation with Saba Khan.

Saba Khans goal is to help scientists with their processes. After seeing scientists struggling in their laboratories Saba set up her own company, with a team of experts who travel to labs and offer expert advice on how to set up laboratories with the focus of making them automation friendly.

Interview

Some Thoughts About the Design Process as a StartUp

Anna Nilsson, Co-Founder of PapersHive, with a focus on Web-development and design, is responsible for the user experience of the portal. This conversation touches on a couple of the main design principles she uses in her every day work.

News

Introducing The Advanced Query Builder

PapersHive just released an Advanced Query Builder. It helps you creating complicated searches and removing the headache of syntax.

A conversation about gamifying CBT

Mamduh is the CEO and founder of Zeeds. Zeeds is increasing the efficiency of cognitive behavioral therapy. While CBT includes a lot of manual tasks Zeeds helps with this with a gamifiacation aspect.

Case Study Featured

How Kancera saved time with PapersHive Biomedical Search

Learn how Kancera uses PapersHive to solve sharing knowledge within teams, simplify the scientific processes and find what is relevant quickly and accurately among 250 million publications.

Newsletter

Date Operator / Query Alert / Docs

Dear PapersHive Community, This is a quick overview on last month features and improvements Narrow down your searches with a Date Operator PapersHive search now supports date ranges and date operators. You can specify a single date, or a range of years, months and days, you will only get articles

Newsletter

Analysis at Scale / Automated Literature Surveillance / Microsoft Word Add-On

Dear PapersHive Community, A lot has happened in the past year! Thanks to your amazing feedback and curiosity PapersHive is improving rapidly, and every day coming closer to our mission to facilitate the Life Science workflow. In this newsletter you will learn about some new exciting improvements of our platform,