Voice to Text for Pharmacovigilance Specialists
Pharmacovigilance demands meticulous documentation under regulatory deadlines. Between individual case safety reports, aggregate analyses, and regulatory authority correspondence, you're typing thousands of words daily while maintaining absolute precision. Blurt lets you speak your case narratives naturally while your hands rest. Hold a button, dictate your adverse event assessment or causality rationale, release. Text appears wherever your cursor is — in your safety database, Word, email, anywhere. Your expertise flows faster when your fingers aren't the bottleneck.
The Typing Problem
Writing case narratives under regulatory deadlines
The 15-day expedited report deadline is tomorrow and you have three serious adverse events to document. Each case narrative requires precise clinical description, temporal relationships, and causality assessment. Your fingers ache from typing patient demographics, medical history, concomitant medications, and event descriptions. You know exactly what to write — your brain processes the case faster than your hands can type — but the keyboard slows your expert judgment.
Documenting adverse event reports with exact clinical terminology
The safety database requires MedDRA-coded terms, but your narrative needs the full clinical picture. You're typing verbatim reporter descriptions, translating them to preferred terms, and documenting your coding rationale. Stevens-Johnson syndrome. Torsades de pointes. Drug-induced liver injury. Every term must be precise, and every keystroke is a chance for error in a document that regulators will scrutinize.
Preparing aggregate safety reports with complex data synthesis
The PADER is due next month and you're synthesizing 18 months of safety data. Interval case counts, serious adverse event breakdowns, new safety signals — all need narrative explanation alongside the tables. You understand the patterns in the data, but translating your analysis into typed prose takes three times longer than it should. Your insights lose momentum somewhere between your expertise and your keyboard.
Drafting regulatory correspondence with precision language
The health authority requested additional information on three cases. Your response must be precise, complete, and compliant. You're cross-referencing source documents, explaining your causality assessment logic, and addressing each query point by point. The mental load of regulatory precision combined with hours of careful typing leaves you exhausted before the response is complete.
Managing signal detection documentation under time pressure
The signal management team meets weekly and you need to document your disproportionality analyses, clinical assessments, and recommendations. PRR values. Reporting odds ratios. Benefit-risk considerations. Each signal requires thorough documentation of your evaluation process, but your typing speed limits how many signals you can properly assess and document before the meeting.
How It Works
Blurt works in every application pharmacovigilance specialists use — safety databases, Microsoft Word, regulatory submission portals, email clients. Anywhere you can place a cursor.
Hold your hotkey
Press your chosen keyboard shortcut. A small indicator confirms Blurt is listening and ready.
Dictate naturally
Speak your case narrative, causality assessment, or regulatory response. Blurt handles punctuation and pharmacovigilance terminology.
Release and continue
Text appears at your cursor instantly. No copying, no pasting, no app switching. Your documentation grows while your hands rest.
Real Scenarios
Drafting individual case safety report narratives
You're documenting a serious adverse event and need to write the case narrative. Hold the button and speak: 'A 67-year-old male with a history of hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus experienced acute hepatic failure approximately 6 weeks after initiating treatment with the suspect product. Concomitant medications included metformin, lisinopril, and atorvastatin. The patient presented with jaundice, elevated transaminases, and coagulopathy.' Complex clinical details captured in seconds. Your expertise flows directly into the safety database.
Writing causality assessments for adverse events
The case requires a thorough causality evaluation. Hold your hotkey and articulate your assessment: 'Based on the temporal relationship, positive dechallenge, and absence of alternative etiologies, the causality assessment is probable. The onset of symptoms within the expected timeframe for this drug class, combined with improvement following discontinuation, supports a causal relationship.' Your clinical reasoning documented at the speed of thought.
Preparing periodic aggregate safety reports
The PADER executive summary needs to synthesize key safety findings. Hold and speak: 'During the reporting interval, a total of 247 adverse event reports were received, including 42 serious cases. No new safety signals were identified. The benefit-risk profile remains favorable for the approved indication.' Aggregate analyses summarized while you maintain focus on the data patterns rather than the typing.
Responding to regulatory authority queries
The FDA has questions about your causality determination. Hold the button and respond: 'In response to your query regarding the temporal relationship, we note that the onset of symptoms occurred 14 days after treatment initiation, which is consistent with the known pharmacokinetic profile of the product and previously reported cases in the literature.' Precise regulatory language delivered without the friction of typing.
Documenting signal detection and evaluation
The signal management committee needs documentation of your analysis. Hold and dictate: 'Quantitative signal detection identified a disproportionate reporting rate for cardiac arrhythmias with a PRR of 3.2 and lower bound of the 95% confidence interval of 2.1. Clinical review of the underlying cases revealed that 80% of patients had pre-existing cardiac risk factors.' Your signal evaluation captured comprehensively while your hands rest.
Writing literature case reports from publications
A published case report needs to be entered into the safety database. Hold your hotkey and summarize: 'The authors report a case of rhabdomyolysis in a 54-year-old female following administration of the suspect product in combination with a statin. Creatine kinase levels peaked at 15,000 units per liter on day 5. The patient recovered following discontinuation of both medications.' Literature surveillance documented efficiently.
Drafting risk management correspondence
The risk management plan needs an update narrative. Hold and speak: 'Based on the cumulative safety data review, the identified risk of hepatotoxicity remains adequately characterized. The current risk minimization measures, including prescriber education and liver function monitoring recommendations, continue to be appropriate.' Strategic safety documentation completed at speaking speed.
Why pharmacovigilance specialists choose Blurt over built-in dictation
| Blurt | macOS Dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Medical terminology | Handles MedDRA terms, drug names, and regulatory language accurately | Frequently mangles pharmacovigilance terminology |
| Activation | Single hotkey, instant response | Menu navigation or voice command required |
| Speed | Text appears in under 500ms | Multi-second delay before transcription begins |
| Reliability | Consistent accuracy across long documentation sessions | Accuracy degrades, requires frequent restarts |
| Privacy | Audio processed securely, not stored | Uncertain data handling for confidential safety data |
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