Session Outline
At Uppsala Monitoring Centre, people manage VigiBase, the world’s largest database of reports about suspected side effects from medicines. We receive tens of thousands of reports each week. In this talk at the NDSML Summit 2023, Jim W. Barrett from Uppsala Monitoring Centre dives into two key challenges we face when analyzing this data.
Key Takeaways
- Data science is an indispensable tool in the field of medicine safety
- Duplicate detection is a surprisingly difficult problem, requiring careful feature engineering
- NLP is a crucial tool for leveraging the rich free-text information in reports of suspected adverse side effects