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On february 11th, the current Minister of State to the French Prime Minister, with responsibility for Forward Planning, Assessment of Public Policies and Development of the Digital Economy in the French government, attended a demo of the VigiTermes project during a meeting which took place at the “Institut de la Vision”.

The VigiTermes project is led by TEMIS and gathers many partners part of the French R&D public initiative, CAP DIGITAL.

Adverse events related risks, has become a major public health issue. Adverse events cause 3% of the hospitalizations in France and represent one of the ten leading causes of death in the United States. The associated challenges revolve around the complexity of handling multi channel patient feedback combined with health professionals’ reports, as well as reacting immediately and accordingly to suspicious signals. The VigiTermes project is a powerful application automating potential adverse event detection thanks to the identification of statistical and semantic links between drugs, treatments and induced pathologies or symptoms. All detected signals are turned into informative dashboards sent to dedicated teams so as to investigate the potential event and make the appropriate decisions.

With such a system, TEMIS and its partners on the project wish to improve adverse events monitoring and help doctors to react quickly when one of their patient shows adverse events following ingestion of a drug.