2. What Are We Trying to Solve?
A Problem with Labeling
• While considered the official source of drug
safety information
– Labels are infrequently read by patient or providers
– The evidence for a given ADR is often scant
– They are one-size-fits-all and do not support
personalized decision-making
3. What Are We Trying to Solve?
A Problem with OHDSI
• While we are developing superb methods and
brilliant tools to convey evidence on drug safety
– Driving use of external tools requires significant
activation energy
– Awareness of the evidence being generated by
OHDSI may diffuse slowly even to those who would
be extremely interested (e.g., drug knowledge
vendors)
– Users will generally need to know what they are
looking for (e.g., what drug-outcome pairs)
5. Evidence-Enhanced Product Labeling
• EPL is a platform for injecting approved product
labeling with evidence from external sources
• Evidence may manifest as
– visual emphasis / de-emphasis of label content
– on-demand display of data and visualizations
• EPL is a trojan horse for getting people to see
the incredible work of OHDSI while using a
standard reference
6. Enhanced Product Labeling:
Framework vs App
• EPL is fundamentally a framework that can
work with any web application
• Two Reference Apps
– Embedding of HOMER-like content within SPL
(DOI_HOI evidence base)
– Embedding of PLATO-like content within SPL
(requires mechanism to capture patient data-manual
inputs, CCD, blue button, etc)
27. Final Thoughts
• Evidence-enhancement not limited to SPLs,
could be applied to SPCs or any other web
content with identifiable drugs and outcomes
• Designed to be flexible in terms of novel
evidence sources and presentation layers
• Will develop in parallel with OHDSI KB and
APIs
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