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Medical Information Response

Medical information response automation that shows where every sentence came from

Every sentence of the reply linked to its approved source, off-label parts evidence only.

See one case, screen by screen ↓
demo8of 8 sentencesin the sample letter cited and checked against the passage they came from
demo1sentenceadvising an unapproved dose, struck by the off-label guard before anyone signed
target1.4daysmedian to send a custom letter, against 4.6 by hand
target100%of paragraphs in every letter tagged with the source they came from
In short

What is Medical Information Response?

Software that takes a healthcare professional's question from the inbox to a signed reply. Medical Information Response adds seven agents that read and split the question, confirm it is unsolicited, find the evidence, compose the letter with a source on every paragraph, guard any off-label part and check every sentence — for a medical information specialist to sign.

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The problem

Why a custom medical information letter takes days to send

When a pharmacist or physician asks something no single standard response covers, the medical information specialist answers in a custom letter. That means finding the right standard response, the label for the requester's country, the data on file and the published papers, pasting paragraphs into the country template, then checking every claim and number by hand and routing the letter for signature. It is hours of work and days of elapsed time, while the HCP has a patient waiting.

The risk sits in reused wording. A sentence copied from an earlier letter can carry a retired standard response, or advise an unapproved use. Off-label parts carry the most risk: the answer must state the approved use first, give the evidence including what does not support the use, stay specific to what was asked and attach references and the label — one sentence of advice can make a scientific response read as promotion. And because reviewers cannot see where a sentence came from, they re-check every one.

demo4.6daysmedian from receipt to a sent custom letter by hand — the sample desk's 2025 baseline
demo6letterswritten by hand in 90 days for the same question — giving Corventa through a feeding tube — with no standard response
demo1sentencein a pregnancy letter still following a standard response retired in June
Where a custom letter's days goestimated
By hand4.6 days
With the solution1.4 days
  • Logging, reading and routing the question0.5 → 0.1 d
  • Searching standard responses, the label and the literature1.2 → 0.1 d
  • Drafting the letter and citing each claim1.1 → 0.3 d
  • Checking every sentence, number and version0.8 → 0.3 d
  • Medical review and the second signature0.7 → 0.6 d
  • Sending, closing and archiving the case0.3 → 0.1 d

Estimated split of the 4.6 days from receipt to a sent custom letter by hand, and of the 1.4-day target with the solution.

How it works

How a question moves

Seven specialist agents read, check, find, compose, guard and verify every answer; a medical information specialist signs.

What comes in
Questions in5 channels · portal, email, call, field team, chat
Agents at work
Inquiry readerparts + label status
Then
Request checkunsolicited, HCP verified
Evidence findercurrent sources only
Then
Letter writera source on every paragraph
Then
Off-label guardevidence only, no advice
Citation checkerevery sentence
A person decides
Medical information specialistedits and signs; off-label gets a second signature
What comes out
Signed letter, sent securely
Request record: who asked and how
Library keeper drafts new standard responses
One case, step by step

One question, from the inbox to a signed letter

Martin Kessler, PharmD, a clinical pharmacist in nephrology at Harbor Point Regional Hospital in Baltimore, emails Northwind Bio Medical Information about a heart-failure patient on Corventa who starts haemodialysis on Monday. Here is what happens next, screen by screen, in the working solution.

  1. 01Oct 7 · 09:52

    Two questions in one email — one on the label, one off it

    Inquiry reader

    The patient is 68, on Corventa 10 mg once daily, with an eGFR of 22. The inquiry reader splits his email into two parts: severe renal impairment and dialysis, which the label speaks to, and a 5 mg dose given after dialysis, which it does not. No single standard response covers both, so it routes a custom letter. The request check verifies Dr. Kessler in the HCP directory and records that the question came from him directly — unsolicited, so an off-label section may be written.

    Route: “Custom letter — no standard response covers every part.”

  2. 02One click

    “Replay the agents” — the letter assembles in view

    The agents

    Priya Raman watches each agent light up in turn. The evidence finder draws four sources: the Corventa Prescribing Information, standard response SRD-COR-011 v3 Use in Renal Impairment, Varga 2024, a single-dose pharmacokinetic study, and Okonkwo 2025, a case series in patients on maintenance haemodialysis. The letter writer composes in the US custom letter v7 template, one section per part of the question.

    “Every paragraph carries its source · click one to read the passage.”

  3. 03Paragraph by paragraph

    Every paragraph tagged; one click shows the passage

    Priya Raman · Medical information specialist

    Section 1 is tagged PI §8.6 and §12.3 and SRD-COR-011 v3: no dose adjustment down to eGFR 30, not studied below 30 or on dialysis, and Northwind Bio has no clinical trial data in dialysis. Priya clicks paragraph 4 and the Varga 2024 results open beside it, highlighted: exposure 1.3 times higher with eGFR below 30, and less than 5% of the dose removed by a 4-hour session.

  4. 04Section 2 · off-label

    Evidence only — and one sentence struck

    Off-label guard

    Section 2 opens with the approved dose — 10 mg once daily, or 2.5 mg with a strong CYP3A4 inhibitor — and says plainly that a 5 mg dose and timing around dialysis are not in the approved labeling. Then the evidence, its limits and the hypotension warning. The writer had carried over a sentence from a draft of letter MI-23977: “Clinicians may consider reducing the dose to 5 mg once daily, given after the dialysis session.” The guard struck it.

    “Advises an unapproved dose and has no published source. An off-label section may state the evidence; it may not recommend.”

  5. 05Route to sign

    She signs with the meaning of her signature

    Priya Raman · Medical information specialist

    The checks are on one line: 8 of 8 sentences cited, the off-label section built from scientific evidence, 1 sentence removed by the guard, 3 references attached. The signing route shows Priya first, then Omar Haddad, MD for the off-label section, then secure email to Dr. Kessler with the case closed and archived. She signs with her password.

    Meaning: “I reviewed this response and approve it as accurate, balanced and specific to the question asked.”

  6. 06Second signature

    The medical reviewer checks the off-label section

    Omar Haddad, MD · Medical reviewer

    Because the letter contains off-label information, it waits for Omar's second signature. His screen lists what he is attesting to: specific to the question asked, the disclosure, the balance, 3 references with the label enclosed, and kept apart from promotion — sent privately to the requester only. Priya's first signature, Oct 7 at 10:24, is shown beside it.

  7. 07Sent · 10:47

    Sent the same morning, with the label enclosed

    Send and file

    The letter goes to Dr. Kessler by secure email with its 3 references and the Prescribing Information. The case closes and the letter, its sources, the decisions and both signatures are archived. The library keeper counts 4 dialysis dosing questions this quarter and suggests an off-label standard response to Dr. Omar Haddad.

    “Sent Oct 7 10:47 by secure email with 3 references and the Prescribing Information.”

  8. 08Another letter

    A sentence from a retired standard response, caught

    Citation checker

    Dr. Helena Marsh, a dermatologist in Portland, asked about Veltrimab in pregnancy planning, breastfeeding and dosing every 2 weeks. Her letter has 11 sentences and 1 to decide: “Northwind Bio suggests considering stopping Veltrimab 15 weeks before a planned conception.” It came from a letter that followed SRD-VLT-014 v4, retired on Jun 12, 2026; v5 removed it because the Prescribing Information sets no period for stopping before conception. The checker offers the current wording; Priya decides.

    The citation checker never accepts its own finding — a person accepts or rejects each one.

  9. 09This quarter

    The questions that keep coming back

    Library keeper

    Three questions have had 4 or more custom letters in 90 days and no standard response: giving Corventa through a feeding tube (6), a washout when switching from another biologic (5) and Talmirex with untreated brain metastases (4). One click drafts a standard response from the signed letters and their sources, for its owner to approve.

    Drafts only — owners approve.

  10. 10Last 30 days

    The desk at a glance

    Dana Okafor · MI manager

    Dana sees 1,184 questions answered in 30 days and 236 custom letters, 20% of questions. Every one of the 2,124 sentences checked carries a source, and all 41 questions submitted by field teams were confirmed with the requester before drafting. A flow shows today's 48 questions from how they arrived — phone, web portal, email, field medical, chat — to how they were answered and where they are now.

Who it’s for

Built for everyone who stands behind a letter.

The same letter, seen by the four people who answer for it — what their week looked like, and what it looks like now.

PR
Priya Raman, PharmDMedical information specialist · signs every letter
Medical information specialist
Before
Searches the library, the label and the literature, pastes paragraphs into the template and checks every claim by hand. “I don't need a faster writer. I need to see where every sentence came from.”
Now
Opens a composed letter with a source on every paragraph and the passage one click away, decides the checker's findings and signs.
OH
Omar Haddad, MDMedical reviewer · second signature on off-label letters
Medical reviewer
Before
Reads every off-label letter for advice that should not be there. “If a letter about an unapproved use tells a doctor what to do, it is promotion.”
Now
Sees the disclosure, the balance, the references and any sentence the guard struck, with its reason, before he adds the second signature.
DO
Dana OkaforMI manager · templates, clocks and the library
MI manager
Before
Owns the clocks and the templates, and watches the same question get answered differently. “The same question comes in six times and gets six different letters.”
Now
Sees volume, turnaround, citation coverage and field-submitted request checks on one dashboard, and the recurring questions that need a standard response.
MC
Dr. Maya ChenMedical director, immunology · owns the Veltrimab standard responses
Standard response owner
Before
Approves new and updated standard responses. “A retired standard response must never come back through an old letter.”
Now
Only current versions are cited; reused wording from a retired version is flagged sentence by sentence, and new drafts arrive cited for her approval.
Built on the engine

7 agents. Each with one job, and hard limits.

Seven specialist agents read, check, find, compose, guard and verify every answer; a medical information specialist signs.

Inquiry reader

Reads each new question from the portal, email, call log, field medical or chat; checks the requester is a healthcare professional; splits the question into parts and sets product, indication, topic, country and on- or off-label for each; chooses the route.

  • Off-label status is set per part, never per question
  • Never answers a patient with an HCP letter
  • Unclear questions go to a person
Request check

Verifies the requester in the HCP directory, records how the question arrived and who submitted it, and when a field team submitted it on the requester's behalf, confirms with the requester that the question was their own before drafting starts.

  • Off-label sections only for unsolicited requests
  • When the origin is unclear, it asks the requester
Evidence finder

Finds the passages that answer each part: current standard responses first, then the label for the requester's country, data on file approved for external use and peer-reviewed literature — including data that do not support an off-label use.

  • Never retrieves a retired version as current
  • Every passage keeps its version and section
Letter writer

Writes the letter from the country template, one section per part in the order asked, linking every factual sentence to the passage it came from, with the off-label disclosure and balancing data where needed; adds references and encloses the label.

  • No sentence without a source
  • Specific to the question asked
  • Drafts only — a person signs
Off-label guard

Checks every off-label section in order — disclosure, evidence, limits and safety — and removes any sentence that advises or suggests an unapproved use, has no scientific source or uses promotional or comparative wording; attaches references and the label and sends the letter for a second signature.

  • Never lets advice on an unapproved use through
  • A removed sentence comes back only with the medical reviewer's signature
Citation checker

Re-reads every sentence against its passages: is it supported, do the numbers match, is the source current, is the off-label disclosure present, is the letter balanced, are there promotional words — and offers corrected wording from current sources.

  • Every finding cites the passage it relies on
  • A person accepts or rejects each finding
Library keeper

Groups signed custom letters by product and topic; when a topic has 4 or more custom letters in 90 days and no current standard response, drafts one from the signed letters and their sources; reminds owners 30 days before a review is due.

  • Drafts only — owners approve
  • Drafts reuse signed wording and its sources
Medical information specialist

Edits and signs. The agents propose; a named person decides.

Ask in plain words

Ask about any inquiry, letter or source

Ask in plain words, or say what to change. Every answer points to the passage behind it.

Why did the off-label guard remove a sentence?

Part 2 of Martin Kessler's question asks about a 5 mg dose given after dialysis, which is not in the label. In an off-label section the letter may state the evidence; it may not advise. The letter writer had carried over “consider reducing the dose to 5 mg” from a draft of letter MI-23977, with no published source behind it, so the guard removed it. What stays: the single-dose study, the dialysis case series and their limits, with the Prescribing Information enclosed.

Why does Dr. Marsh's letter need a second signature?

Part 3 asks about dosing every 2 weeks, which is outside the approved dosing. Your settings send every letter with off-label content to Omar Haddad, MD for a second signature. The section opens with the disclosure, gives the extension-cohort result, then the limits and the infection rates, and the Prescribing Information is enclosed.

Flag literature older than 5 years

Done. New rule: flag any cited article published more than 5 years ago, so you can check for newer data before signing. None of the open letters cites an article older than 2024. The rule is live in Settings and recorded in the audit trail.

Draft a standard response for Corventa through a feeding tube

Six custom letters in 90 days asked this, and there is no standard response. I am drafting SRD-COR-015 v0.1 from the signed letters and their sources: the label wording, the in vitro study and its limits. It goes to Omar Haddad for review.

Every screen

The working solution, as it ships.

13 screens from the working solution, on its sample data. Pick one to see it large.

The letter composerThe question split into its parts with on- or off-label status, the letters on the specialist's desk, the letter with a source on every paragraph, the off-label guard's checklist and the sources drawn.
Agents at workThe agent track lights up agent by agent, sources light as they are drawn and paragraphs write in one by one.
One paragraph, its passageClick a paragraph and the exact passage it came from opens beside it, highlighted in the source.
The off-label guardThe off-label section in order — approved use, evidence, limits, safety — and the advisory sentence struck, with its reason and where it came from.
Route to signThe checks on one line, the signing route, the meaning of the signature and the password.
Second signatureThe medical reviewer's attestation for the off-label section: specific, disclosed, balanced, referenced and kept apart from promotion.
Sent and filedSent by secure email with references and the Prescribing Information; the case closed and archived.
Sentence-level reviewEvery sentence with its citation; the checker's finding on a sentence that follows a retired standard response, and the current wording to use instead.
InquiriesEvery question with its product, channel, route, label status, stage and clock, filtered by stage, product, channel and label.
Standard responsesStandard responses with versions, approval and review dates, use in the last 30 days and status.
Recurring questionsQuestions asked 4 or more times in 90 days with no standard response, each with its owner and a draft button.
DashboardVolume, custom letters, turnaround, sentences with a source and field-submitted requests confirmed, with today's questions from the door to the letter.
SettingsWho signs, the second signer for off-label content, the clocks, and what the agents may cite.
Governance

Built for unsolicited requests: cited, guarded, signed.

Every sentence links to its passageEach factual sentence links to the passage it came from — a standard response, a label section, data on file or a publication — and the reviewer opens it with one click.
A person signs every letterAgents draft; a medical information specialist reviews and signs every letter with an electronic signature that records the meaning, the name and the time.
Off-label parts: evidence only, two signaturesAn off-label section carries the disclosure, scientific evidence with its limits and safety, references and the label. Advice is struck with its reason, the medical reviewer adds a second signature, and the letter goes privately to the requester only.
Only current versions are citedOnly the current approved version of a standard response or label may be cited. Retired versions are flagged, never used — even when the wording arrives through an old letter.
Off-label answers only when askedAn off-label section is written only for an unsolicited request. The request check records who submitted each question, and a question a field team submitted is confirmed with the requester first — within 1 business day, a clock that is locked.
Every step on the audit trailEvery agent step, removed sentence, edit, finding decision and signature is recorded with who and when. Medical information content is kept apart from sales and marketing systems.
Configuration

Your procedures, not ours

Who signs, how fast, and what the agents may cite are settings, changed by your MI manager and recorded on the audit trail.

SettingDefaultChoose from
Custom letters signed byAny MI specialistAny MI specialist · MI pharmacists only
Second signature on letters with off-label contentOmar Haddad, MDOmar Haddad, MD · Dr. Maya Chen
Standard responses sent unchangedOn — without a second look when the question matches a current standard response exactlyOn · Off
Questions from patientsAnswered by the nurse line, never as a letter to an HCP templateOn · Off
Custom letter clock5 business daysStep up or down, one business day at a time
Standard response letter clock2 business days, Prescribing Information includedStep up or down, one business day at a time
Field-submitted request1 business day for the requester to confirm the question was their ownLocked
Congress abstractsOffOn, with a note that the data are not peer reviewed · Off
Connections

Works with the sources your desk already answers from

Inquiry recordsyour medical information or CRM case, from portal, email, call, field medical or chat
Standard response documentsevery version kept, with owners and review dates; only current ones cited
LabelsUSPI, SmPC and Product Monograph, the current revision for the requester's country
Literature and data on filepeer-reviewed articles from your subscription and reports approved for external use
Letter templatesper country — US, Canada in English and French, UK
HCP directory and consent registerverifies each requester and records consent to reply and how they want the answer
What it changes

The difference, in numbers.

Every figure is labelled: a target the solution is built to, an estimate, a typical published result, or a proven one.

target
1.4days
median to send a custom letter
By hand4.6 days
With agents1.4 days
target
100%
of paragraphs in every letter tagged with the source they came from
paragraphs with a source
estimated
50%
less time drafting each custom letter
By hand2–4 h
With agents1–2 h

“demo” = seen in the working solution, on its sample data · “target” = the design goal for the desk, measured in the live solution · “estimated” = our estimate · Context: FDA final guidance on communications to HCPs about scientific information on unapproved uses (January 2025) and FDA revised draft guidance on addressing misinformation and responding to unsolicited requests (July 2024). People, products, companies and hospitals named on this page are fictional — characters and sample data in the working solution.

Questions

What medical information teams ask us.

What is medical information response automation?

Software that takes a healthcare professional's question from the inbox to a signed reply. Medical Information Response adds seven agents that read and split the question, confirm it is unsolicited, find the evidence, compose the letter with a source on every paragraph, guard any off-label part and check every sentence — for a medical information specialist to sign.

How does it answer off-label questions?

The inquiry reader sets on- or off-label for each part of the question, not for the question as a whole. An off-label section opens with the approved use and a plain statement that the asked use is not approved, gives only scientific evidence with its limits and safety, and attaches references and the label. The off-label guard strikes any sentence that advises, and the medical reviewer adds a second signature.

Can reviewers see where each sentence came from?

Yes. Every paragraph is tagged with its source — a standard response, a label section, a publication or data on file — and one click shows the exact passage, highlighted. The citation checker re-reads every sentence against its passage for claims, numbers, version, balance and promotional words.

Can an old letter bring back a retired standard response?

Not unnoticed. Only current versions may be cited, and the citation checker flags a sentence whose wording follows a retired version, with the current wording to use instead. The specialist accepts the change or keeps the sentence with a note the medical reviewer sees.

What if a field team submits a question for a doctor?

The request check keeps the doctor's own words and records who submitted the question. Before any off-label section is written, it confirms with the doctor that the question was their own, and MI compliance reviews each confirmation. A question prompted by a sales representative never receives an off-label section.

Do people stay in control of what is sent?

Yes. The agents draft and never sign. A medical information specialist reviews and signs every letter, the medical reviewer adds a second signature to letters with off-label content, every checker finding is accepted or rejected by a person, and a sentence the guard removed returns only with the medical reviewer's signature.

Can we use our own templates, clocks and approvers?

Yes. Letter templates per country, who signs custom letters, the second signer for off-label content, the clocks for custom and standard response letters, and what the agents may cite — such as congress abstracts — are settings. Rules can also be added in plain words, for example flagging literature older than 5 years.

How long does it take to go live?

The Agentic Solution Engine builds and deploys it from your requirements and documents — your SOPs, templates, standard response library and a sample of past inquiries — and it goes live once every quality gate has passed. We will walk you through it on your own inquiries first.

See it on
your inquiries.

We'll run Medical Information Response on a sample of your own past inquiries and standard responses.