10 challenges faced by medical writers – and how PleaseReview overcomes them

Nicola Pearson Date published: Jun 27, 22

During our recent webinar with the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), we heard from Kim Norris, Director of Medical Writing at UniQure. Kim explained how she uses our real-time review platform, PleaseReview, to enhance the quality, transparency and focus of document reviews.

When a complex document is being created, many people will be involved in the writing, editing and approvals process. As more and more people become involved, the challenges of producing a fully version-controlled and auditable document are amplified.

Using PleaseReview allows you to take control and manage all aspects of document collaboration by addressing these challenges to create an efficient and secure software solution.

Here are Kim’s top 10 challenges and how they were solved. Can you relate?

Challenge 1: Lost and/or duplicated work

Solution: Secure version control protects your documents.

Challenge 2: Accepted changes lost or overwritten

Solution: All comments and changes are recorded and east to accept or reject.

Challenge 3: Crashing of the review platform

Solution: A stable platform which accommodates 50+ reviewers who can co-author, edit and review the document at the same time.

Challenge 4:  Difficult to keep track of activity for audits

Solution: The review report gives a full audit trail.

Challenge 5: Tight deadlines

Solution: The process is quick and helps facilitate getting to market more quickly.

Challenge 6:  Manually chasing colleagues across platforms and consolidating feedback

Solution: Reminders can be scheduled to be sent automatically when something is due, then easily accept or reject documents within a single version of the document.

Challenge 7:  Disputes on decisions made within the document

Solution: Reconciliation report makes it easy to say who made what change when, where and why

Challenge 8:  Colleagues unsure if their feedback is seen

Solution: Because PleaseReview displays everyone’s comments in the same place, none are prioritised or missed.

Challenge 9:  Reviewers comment on areas they don’t need to 

Solution: The ability to lock-in sections of text for editing ensures reviewers focus on the sections they need to.

Challenge 10: Difficult to make reviewers accountable

Solution: Review details page makes it easy to see who has and hasn’t started. 

Success stories

Find out how Altera followed CMMI best practices with an efficient review process by using PleaseReview.

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