Accenture and UCB have collaborated to build a safety solution based on Accenture's INTIENT™ Pharmacovigilance to accelerate processing of individual patient safety case reports. This will help UCB uncover patient safety impacts from existing treatments and better manage the risks of new drugs and services. Accenture's INTIENT Pharmacovigilance leverages artificial intelligence to collect, manage and learn from UCB's structured and unstructured source data within pharmacovigilance, which monitors the effects of drugs during clinical trials and after they have been cleared by regulators for use.

INTIENT Pharmacovigilance improves the flow of data, making pharmacovigilance case processing faster, less costly and more consistent. An Accenture Life Sciences operations team is managing case processing augmented by the platform for UCB, allowing UCB's case processing team to focus on value-add activities such as medical assessment and targeted follow up, helping them uncover insights into emerging trends, potential compliance issues and adverse events. This solution embeds real-time artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotic process automation into the data management process — from gathering initial patient information and subsequent inputs to regulatory reporting.

This platform further improves accuracy and consistency in reporting, supports a more timely discovery of potential adverse events, while also supporting compliance with data privacy Good Pharmacovigilance Practice (GPvP) productive system requirements and policies. One of the realities that is driving the need for INTIENT is the many variable forms of data being managed within the life sciences industry, including both structured and unstructured data, as well as the vast number of data sources. Structured data is highly organized and formatted in a way that is easily searchable in related databases; however, unstructured data has no pre-defined format or organization, making it much more difficult to collect, process and analyze — and to derive scientific insights.