Knowledge Analyst at Novartis – The CV Tribune

“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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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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Driving organizational change

Christian Velten — Sat, 19 May 2012 09:51:00 +0000

In late 2011 an additional organizational transformation within our Novartis division was announced more or less surprisingly. I had the lead with implementing consequential changes of structures, processes, services and deliveries. During day-to-day operation, I reshaped information research & analysis processes and moved corresponding tasks and assigned FTEs to the Novartis Hyderabad (India) subsidiary. In addition, I coordinated and [...]

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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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Drug Intelligence Report available

Christian Velten — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:38:00 +0000

Within two weeks in November 2010, I conceived the “Drug Intelligence Report” concept (360° view on a product) for Novartis Global Medical Affairs. The mission was to provide senior management with a daily-basis full picture view on Novartis products. Factually, the general situation at Novartis at that time was a high fragmentation of internal information sources [...]

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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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A new pharmacovigilance literature screening process has been established

Christian Velten — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:17:00 +0000

Within 5 weeks in Q2/2009, I designed and implemented a new literature support process for periodic safety reports by Novartis Drug Safety. The service was fully compliant to regulatory requirements and covered all global Novartis drugs (~160) as well as all periodic safety reports to relevant authorities by Novartis Global Drug Safety (PSUR, PBRER, ASR, DSUR). For example in 2012 and [...]

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Internal report released on gaps and bottlenecks of information supply within Novartis Pharma

Christian Velten — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:50:00 +0000

Between 2009 and 2013, I responsibly cared for the internal customer relationship management on behalf of the Novartis Knowledge Management business unit. My objectives had been to proactively manage customer relations, to align our deliveries with our clients’ business needs, to design efficient customer service processes ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction, and to coordinate the customer [...]

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