Use case: Automated medication approvals
Goal
A department of the federal government responsible for ensuring that high-quality health services are accessible to Canadians was looking to modernize how it manages submissions from drug manufacturers looking to get medications approved for release in the market.
Challenges
- Getting critical medications to market was delayed from employees duplicating manual processes
- Communication was siloed and resource utilization was inefficient due to disconnected systems
- Burdened by significant overhead from maintaining siloed legacy systems
Solutions
- One digital solution replaced four disconnected systems
- Integrated systems to reduce manual data entry, duplication, and errors
- Consolidated data management to eliminate silos
- Enabled real-time analytics and reports
Results
- Accelerated submission turnaround time
- Scaled down systems from 4 to 1
- Improved decision making
- Eliminated manual data entry, duplication, and errors
- Reduced regulatory burden
