Praxis Life Sciences announced release and availability of Praxis Semantix™ - a fast new coder and browser for the medical dictionary for regulatory activities (MedDRA®).

Already in use at several major pharmaceutical companies, Semantix is now available through subscription over the internet. Semantix lets companies go almost immediately from slow in-house systems to fully web-based browsing and coding in a few minutes.

Faced with the critical emphasis that global regulatory agencies are placing on adverse event reporting, Praxis Semantix was designed and developed to overcome some of the key challenges in accurately reporting medical events. Companies using spreadsheets, or struggling with expensive complex software that fails to search very well, or companies with very limited IT departments find Semantix ideally suited to their needs. "Even some of my largest pharmaceutical clients, with extensive IT capabilities, have been surprised with how quickly Semantix was up and running. As a web-based application, Semantix doesn't require a lot of time and complexity to setup and operate", said Dean Sellis, Semantix Product Manager.

Praxis Semantix was designed to meet the needs of pharmaceutical companies and CROs (Clinical Research Organizations) frustrated by the amount of money and time they were spending on maintaining their existing case coding systems and processes. Staffs were wasting time with slow searches and creating work-arounds to bypass issues with complex, overly engineered systems. This resulted in adverse event cases that frequently had to be reworked. "Slow, complex systems which challenge experienced medical professionals to do their jobs just don't make sense," commented Sellis.

Semantix helps improve MedDRA browsing through the use of natural language search, word root search, clear display of term history, detailed information regarding term changes over time and easy access to multiple versions of MedDRA. Semantix supports autocoding and quick import / export to spreadsheet files. Examples of these features are available on the web at www.praxismi.com/semantix.