Pharos Scout

Pharos Scout

Adverse-event-driven literature surveillance, audit-ready by default.

100%
Reproducible, auditable searches
Per drug-AE
Validated MeSH + TIAB strings
Audit-ready
Evidence tables by default
The Challenge

Where teams lose time and visibility.

Periodic literature monitoring for pharmacovigilance requires consistent, reproducible and documented search processes, yet most teams rely on manual approaches that are difficult to audit and consume disproportionate writer time.

About Pharos Scout

Pharmacovigilance literature monitoring software.

Pharos Scout is an adverse-event-driven surveillance platform that automates validated PubMed search-query construction per drug-AE combination, retrieves and de-duplicates articles, scores them by evidence quality, and produces audit-ready reports with a scientific narrative prioritisation framework built in.

Delivered as part of Ichelon's scientific & PV practices

Pharos Scout, drug-AE literature surveillance with consolidated, evidence-scored tables
Pharos Scout, drug-AE literature surveillance with consolidated, evidence-scored tables
Capabilities

What Pharos Scout does.

1

Validated MeSH + TIAB Query Builder

Auto-generates validated PubMed search strings using MeSH headings and comprehensive drug spelling variants in TIAB fields, producing reproducible, auditable literature coverage across all selected drug-AE combinations.

2

Consolidated Evidence Table with AE-Wise Signal Analysis

All retrieved articles are de-duplicated and presented in a consolidated evidence table tagged by study type, adverse event and evidence score, instantly surfacing which AEs have active literature signals requiring narrative attention.

3

Scientific Narrative Prioritisation Framework

Per-AE article views with evidence scoring, study-type classification and abstract-level triage let medical writers and PV scientists systematically prioritise which articles require full review and narrative documentation.

Who it's for

Built for your role.

PharmacovigilanceDrug Safety TeamsCROsRegulatory AffairsMedical Writers
Part of one platform

Pharos Scout doesn't work alone.

Pharos Signal shows declining prescriptions in North India. Pharos Deploy recommends reallocating 12 MRs. Pharos RouteIQ optimises field coverage, one connected decision, three modules, in a single platform.

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Pharos Scout FAQ

Questions, answered.

Pharos Scout is an adverse-event-driven surveillance platform that automates validated PubMed search-query construction per drug-AE combination, retrieves and de-duplicates articles, scores them by evidence quality, and produces audit-ready reports with a scientific narrative prioritisation framework built in.
Periodic literature monitoring for pharmacovigilance requires consistent, reproducible and documented search processes, yet most teams rely on manual approaches that are difficult to audit and consume disproportionate writer time.
It is built for Pharmacovigilance, Drug Safety Teams, CROs, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Writers in pharma and life-sciences organisations.
Yes, Pharos Scout is one of nine modules in Pharos, Ichelon's intelligence layer for healthcare and life sciences. Modules share data so insights in one inform decisions in the next.

See Pharos Scout on your data.

Book a guided demo or start a pilot, we map the module to one of your real workflows so you can see the decision support firsthand.

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