In the beginning of March, the First All-Ukrainian PHARMA IT FORUM took place in Kiev. The participants of this event were owners and directors of pharmaceutical companies, regulatory managers, authorized persons for pharmacovigilance and among them there were the representatives of S&MCo.Ecopharm Ltd.— Alexander Grynevych, Deputy General Director; Victoria Kostenko, Authorized Person for Quality and Maxim Shepetko, Head of Clinical Trials Units.
The event brought together several areas, which allowed different audiences to find exactly what they were interested in. The forum was divided into 4 thematic sections: IT in pharmacovigilance, IT in clinical trials, eCTD, IT in regulatory.
The participants were informed about the implementation of the Automated Pharmacovigilance Information System in Ukraine, got news on global digital technology market in pharmaceutical industry. By the way, according to the forecasts of sources the speakers reffered to, it is expected that the global IT market of health care will reach $ 223,600 billion by 2023. A separate topic of discussion was the modern trends of development of IT in clinical trials, particularly the foreign experience of use of social networks. The Forum has not bypassed the problem of data cybersecurity, the participants discussed the improvement of IT-technologies in the procedure of submission of registration dossier and the possibilities that the introduction of electronic document management reveals. During the discussions, each of the participants was able to define his own vision of the situation.
