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The ignored AI challenge for pharma and healthcare industries

Christian Velten — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:09:27 +0000

AI is increasingly competing with pharma and healthcare industries on information and knowlegde about their products. This should not be ignored anymore.

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“Product Literature Database” (PLD) … what the heck is this?

Christian Velten — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:34:50 +0000

Pharmaceutical companies have an inevitable need for regular if not permanent analysis of literature published on their products. They are not only legally obligated with regards to pharmacovigilance (e.g. processing of any undesirable drug effect reported somewhere) and medical information (e.g. answering product inquires by practitioners and pharmacists). Beyond that, product reports within the scientific [...]

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How to maximise the effectiveness of your FTO research – Checklist

Christian Velten — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:12:46 +0000

Information research on freedom-to-operate is daily business patent research. But it should never be undervalued. Every single project somehow is a class of its own. And missing the tiniest piece of “public” information can have major impact on the success of your IP strategy. So, standard guides and how-to’s do not really serve the need for distinct [...]

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eNova, a unique source of product information at Novartis

Christian Velten — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 16:44:00 +0000

Since the late 1960’s up to the end of 2013, eNova was the Corporate Product Literature Database of Novartis and its ancestors. But in fact it was much more than that. Over many years of continuous improvements, eNova had evolved to the most sophisticated, mature and powerful information source on real-world product behavior. Providing an outstanding [...]

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“eNova QuickAnswers” iOS app available

Christian Velten — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 19:44:00 +0000

In 2013, I initiated and promoted the development and implementation of “eNova QuickAnswers”, a quick and easy access to standard product-related answers for marketing and medical information colleagues at Novartis. “QuickAnswers” was finally realized as search tool within eNova and as website widget which could be implemented on any intranet or Sharepoint site Last not [...]

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Checklist on pitfalls with bibliographic searches

Christian Velten — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:42:31 +0000

With a so-called “bibliographic search” you are looking for the abstract or full-text of a scientific publication. This means, you already have at least some citation information on the publication, like author name(s), publication year, title, journal name, volume#, issue#, and/or page#. There are some known traps and pitfalls with bibliographic searches, that I would [...]

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Does Google already control your business?

Christian Velten — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:43:47 +0000

You would be surprised (and shocked) by how many people use Google as the major or even sole information source for daily business. In the worst case for business-critical decisions. And many of those are actually convinced that Google serves their needs. The problem simply is that you never know what you do not know. [...]

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How to find high-quality patent information?

Christian Velten — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:03:12 +0000

The major challenge for most IP workers is to know where and how to retrieve up-to-date, high-quality patent as well as patent-related information. Well, for simple searches regarding a known patent number, inventor, assignee, head title, etc. there are already a couple of easy-to-use Internet sources provided by national and international patent authorities. For example, [...]

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e-Patient Dave and the Participatory Medicine

Christian Velten — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:51:00 +0000

Do you know the “Society for Participatory Medicine“? They claim that the internet brings patients together with information and with each other, and by that is revolutionizing the relationship between patient and health care providers. David deBronkart, or better known as “e-patient Dave” was diagnosed in January 2007 with kidney cancer at a very late [...]

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iFind, the Novartis-internal “PubMed+”, has been released

Christian Velten — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:17:00 +0000

In April 2009, a new line management of our team at Novartis asked for a new internal scientific information tool. The specification was something like “PubMed … but much better!” (PubMed is a public search engine for bio-medical scientific literature, provided by none other than the US National Institutes of Health) The whole team met the spontaneous [...]

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