Review Platforms for Medical Writers

To wrap up our theme of Medical Writing Superpowers (Efficiency, Compliance, Cooperation, Accuracy, Consistency, Presentation, Voice) and the tools to help you achieve them, I wanted to highlight review platform tools. 

Review Platforms (Activate your powers for Efficiency, Cooperation, Presentation) 

There are many commercial applications that help teams review drafts of documents.  

• As a MW, fewer tasks are less enjoyable than consolidating comments from several reviewers all from separate documents. 

• In a siloed system or process the reviewers lose the ability to see colleague’s comments and have their notes responded to. 

• Uniformity and consistency with review platforms helps to bring the team together to gain efficiency and make the MW’s job easier with a single source of truth resulting from reviews. 

• If you are an independent MW, consider a license to a platform so that you can control these critical steps in the process. 

• If with a company, ensure that teams use a consistent methodology so that reviews are as predictable and timely as possible. 

• Look for a product with real collaborative authoring and the ability to distribute permissions to review to a focused group. 

• Consider the output once a review is complete and how stable your document will be after having passed through so many fingertips. 

Michael Claffey

Chief Operating Officer