Measure How Adverse Event Cases Are Processed and Identify Where to Reduce Cycle Time

Pyze measures how case intake, triage, medical coding, case processing, narrative writing, quality review and regulatory submission are performed, and identifies where automation and AI agents apply within the reporting clocks.

1 week
to instrument, no workflow change
5
levers separated before anything is built
7
case processing stages measured, from intake to submission
6 weeks
to a priced opportunity register

Engagement archetypes from Pyze deployments across regulated operations rather than a single named account. Pyze measures how work is performed and does not assess the content of any case.

Pharmacovigilance teams process adverse event reports that arrive by email, fax, call center, partner exchange and literature, and each case must be assessed, coded, reviewed and submitted within a regulatory clock. The safety database records each case status, but it does not record the work between statuses: duplicate searches, follow-up requests, MedDRA term selection, narrative drafting and quality review rework. Pyze measures that work. Pyze does not make safety, clinical or compliance determinations.

Common Findings in Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance

Four patterns that recur across engagements, each shown with the measurement and the resulting change.

Case intake receives reports in many formats, and staff transcribe source documents into the safety database before triage can begin.

Automate
What the measurement shows

Pyze measures the time spent between the source document, the email client and the safety database during intake, and identifies which source types require the most re-entry and duplicate searching.

What changes

Structured intake from known source types is completed without transcription, and cases that need review arrive with the source fields already placed for the case processor to confirm.

Medical coding of events, drugs and indications is performed case by case, and coders look up the same terms repeatedly.

Agentify
What the measurement shows

Pyze measures the sequence of coding tool, dictionary and safety database interactions for each case and identifies the share of coding steps that repeat a term already coded in the same or an earlier case.

What changes

Term suggestions are prepared from prior coding decisions for the coder to confirm, and the coder time is directed to the terms that need medical judgment.

Narrative writing and quality review are separate steps, and cases are returned to the processor after review for corrections to the same recurring items.

Standardize
What the measurement shows

Pyze measures the number of times each case moves between processing and review, and the time between each handoff. Recurring return reasons can be matched to case types and to the stage where the item was entered.

What changes

The recurring return causes are documented and addressed at the point of entry, which reduces review loops without changing the review standard.

Cases approaching a reporting clock are expedited by team leads, and the remaining work waits behind them.

Rebalance
What the measurement shows

Pyze measures the distribution of cases across processors and the time each case waits between stages. Queue imbalance ahead of submission deadlines is visible by case type and by site.

What changes

Case allocation is leveled across processors and sites against the measured workload and the remaining time on each clock.

Opportunity Register

A sample register, sorted by the lever that resolves each opportunity. In an engagement, each line carries measured hours, a named owner and the evidence it was derived from.

Case intake and data entry
Automate
Structured source reports entered into the safety database without transcription.
Duplicate detection and follow-up requests
Agentify
Candidate duplicates and follow-up requests prepared for the case processor to confirm.
Medical coding assistance
Agentify
Term suggestions prepared from prior coding decisions for the coder to confirm.
Narrative drafting
Agentify
Narrative drafted from the case data for review by the case processor.
Quality review loops
Standardize
Recurring return reasons documented and addressed at the point of entry.
Automate and Agentify are distinct findings. Scheduling a report is deterministic work with a stated rule. Diagnosing an exception is a decision. Separating the two prevents a register from over-scoping the first and missing the second.

Systems typically instrumented

Argus SafetyArisGlobal LifeSphereVeeva Vault SafetyMedDRA coding toolsLiterature database platformsDocument managementExcel and Outlook

Capture covers browser-delivered and thick-client applications, including virtualized estates, with no change to how anyone works.

Roles Involved

Case intakeCase processingMedical codingQuality reviewSafety operations

Instrumentation is configured per application rather than per person, so the population in scope is set during scoping and is not a deployment constraint.

How an Engagement Runs

Baseline, blueprint, transform, prove

The same four stages apply in every sector. The fourth stage repeats the baseline measurement, which makes the engagement an ongoing operating capability rather than a one-time report.

01

Baseline

What the work costs today, measured across every person and application.

02

Blueprint

Procedures, application rules and execution evidence, read as one target state.

03

Transform

Where each of the five levers applies, priced and owned.

04

Prove

The after state measured against the baseline, using the same method.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Pyze make safety or compliance determinations?
No. Pyze does not make safety, clinical or compliance determinations, and it does not assess the content of any case. It measures how case handling work is performed and identifies where it is repetitive or varies between people. Seriousness, causality and reportability decisions remain with qualified staff under existing procedures.
What data does Pyze collect in a regulated environment?
Interaction metadata only: application, screen, sequence and timing. Collection is limited to a whitelist of business applications. Pyze never captures keystrokes, field values, free text or screen contents, so no patient or reporter data is collected, and identifiers are pseudonymous.
Our safety database already reports cycle times by status. What does this add?
The safety database records when a case changed status. Pyze measures the work performed between statuses, including coding lookups, duplicate searches, follow-up handling and review rework, which allows the effort within each stage to be priced.
How does this relate to validation of changes to the safety system?
Measurement does not change the safety database or the case process. Any later automation of a step is a separate change and follows the validation and change control procedures that apply to that system.

Associated Titles

Head of PharmacovigilanceVP of Drug SafetyDirector of Safety OperationsDirector of Case ManagementPharmacovigilance Operations LeadSafety Operations ManagerDirector of Global Business ServicesHead of Operational Excellence

Industries

Roles

Start with a measured baseline

Six weeks from instrumentation to a priced opportunity register, and the baseline stays in place so later quarters are measured rather than re-estimated.