The past year has brought significant changes not only in regulatory mandates and guidances but also regarding a broader overall emphasis on coordination of information and processes.
The past year has brought significant changes not only in regulatory mandates and guidances but also regarding a broader overall emphasis on coordination of information and processes.
The regulators have prioritized transparency and harmonization for some time but underscored them to an even greater degree in 2014; 2015 is likely to see the trend intensify.
Improvement in the oversight of companies’ pharmacovigilance systems will also be a priority in the year ahead. Regulators have again taken steps aimed at improving patient safety - and, indeed, at encouraging patients to become more-active participants in their own health. And companies will have to determine how to respond to some of those developments.
Perhaps one of the paramount themes of the year - one that will only grow in the year ahead - is the narrowing gap between pharmacovigilance and regulatory.
All of those trends require pharmaceutical companies to improve their business processes and the ways they manage regulatory information across the enterprise.
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