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The DistillerSR AI-enabled platform automates literature-based evidence synthesis, so you can manage costs and deliver better research faster.

Centralize, standardize, reuse and share your liturature evidence organization wide to eliminate costly rework and make better decisions.

Leverage our expert managed service to accelerate time to value and derisk your investment.

Intelligent Automation & AI

DistillerSR’s configurable AI-enabled workflows adapt to any use case, increasing efficiency and reducing reviewer fatigue. Every decision is tracked for complete audit readiness, ensuring your evidence is defensible and regulatory compliant. DistillerSR adheres to NIST AI principles, operating within a secure system without sharing your data.

AI Re-Rank

DistillerSR’s AI learns from your team, prioritizing key references, helping you process relevant literature faster and cutting screening time by up to 70%.

Smart Evidence Extraction (SEE)

SEE automatically finds, suggests, extracts and links data from references, including numerical content, sentiment analysis, and plain language summaries.

AI Classifiers

Automatically answer closed-ended questions and label references to reduce screening time and get important research into the right hands faster.

Agentic AI

Combine an LLM with a validated repository of literature evidence to improve research efficiency, reduce costly rework and share across the organization.

Audit Log

Our platform’s integrated audit trail and version control translate into 100% traceable evidence — right down to the individual reviewer and the time it was collected.

Configurable Workflows

Highly configurable workflows to meet your exact needs and protocols. Projects, workflows and forms can be customized, standardized and replicated with templates.

Full Text Retrieval

Streamline content procurement with RightFind by finding and purchasing full-texts directly within the platform and you can automatically search for and upload full-text from PMC.

Standard Reporting

Create standard reports like the PRISMA flow diagram to generate publication- ready reports and ensure your research is defensible. Optimize your team’s output with activity reports.

“Applying DistillerSR’s AI in the title and abstract screening reduced the time required to complete a literature review by 67%, with an accuracy score of 90% for systematic and targeted literature reviews.”

– Eli Lilly

 

Extract and Report

Easy-to-use, AI-enabled data extraction delivers the insights you need, when you need them. The platform simplifies and standardizes data extraction using configurable forms, templates and validations. You can create customized report and filter specific sets of references and data elements for analysis.

Ready-Made Forms and Templates

Access an extensive library of standard and customizable AI-enabled forms and templates to streamline every step of a review. Easily tag articles for future reference, and for quality assessments, leverage specialized Risk of Bias templates for diverse study designs, including the Cochrane Risk of Bias.

Customized Reporting

Customized reports provide faster, more insightful analysis. Advanced filtering, data display and export options and built-in data cleaning ensures accurate, reliable insights.  Export data to third-party business intelligence and statistical AI tools. Schedule reports and notify internal stakeholders to improve collaboration.

API and Data Integration

Seamlessly enrich and share literature evidence by integrating with 3rd-party applications and databases like Embase, ontology and semantic platforms, BI tools and safety databases.

Data Standardization

Cut down on data cleaning with input validation and built-in form calculations. Deploy reusable lists to standardize answer sets such as geography, product lists, disease state and treatments.

“By leveraging DistillerSR our team was able to decrease the time to complete title & abstract screening and data extraction for 169 references from 7 hours to 1 hour and 48 minutes.”

– Abbott

 

Integrations

Receive, send and enrich evidence with 3rd-party systems. Integrate with corporate libraries, publishers such as Embase, ontology, semantic and safety databases and BI dashboards to create a secure bridge between the source of data and outside systems..

Corporate Libraries

Connect your digital libraries directly to DistillerSR. Schedule and automatically import references from RightFind, PubMed, Embase, and others. Keep your data current and eliminate manual updates by configuring auto-alerts for new content.

Safety Databases

DistillerSR supports Oracle Safety One Intake and Oracle Argus attributes for surveillance programs. API integration provides an automated and auditable approach for processing adverse events identified in literature into safety cases.

Business Intelligence Tools

Integrations with BI dashboards provide a dynamic view of literature evidence to identify trends, patterns and outliers, enabling faster and more informed decision-making across different business functions.

Publishers and Data Aggregators

Integrate DistillerSR with multiple data sources from pre-evidence medical congress abstracts and published papers, expanding your organization’s evidence landscape while enabling data sharing with different functional teams.

Evidence Enrichment

Third-party integration with data sources, from ontology and semantic engines to real world evidence (RWE), can enrich data in DistillerSR. This can include inserting reference labels into DistillerSR for searching, reporting, filtering, prioritization and dynamic workflow routing. Extracted RWE data and publication scores can be automatically incorporated into data extraction tables to supplement your project’s literature analysis.

“We are using DistillerSR connected to a Power BI dashboard to extract all the data from a published paper — basically anything related to study details, appraisal, comorbidities and patient description as well as safety and performance data — in one sitting. Our teams can then access the dashboard independently and retrieve whatever data is relevant to them.”

– Terumo Medical

 

Evidence Reuse

Eliminate costly rework and evidence silos with DistillerSR’s module, CuratorCR, to create a repository of literature evidence. It automatically identifies previously extracted data, ensuring your teams avoid extracting the same information repeatedly. This automates evidence management, accelerating research, cutting costs, and streamlining submissions.

Create an Evidence Repository

Centrally and dynamically manage your organization’s literature evidence synthesis while continuously validating, curating and reusing data across the organization.

Trusted Source

Confidently collaborate with multiple teams, ensuring continuous access to current data for faster decision-making.

Suggested Answers

Prevent duplication of effort and reduce completion times by reusing validated data and references to populate forms and tables quickly and with confidence in their accuracy.

Permission-Based Access Controls

Share data easily and securely across your organization with configurable, permission- based access controls, providing greater visibility into your projects’ evidence.

Copyright Management

Automatically connects to already procured copyrighted materials and open-access sources, drastically reducing the time to access content while minimizing duplicate purchases.

“With CuratorCR, I’ll know immediately if a colleague has already retrieved clinical data related to a particular device and won’t waste any time on that task. It will be a huge time saver for our team.”

– NuVasive

 

Expert Managed Services

Let DistillerSR experts configure your platform, maximizing your investment and cutting costs so your team can focus on high-quality, domain-specific research. This accelerates time to first value and ensures your workflows leverage innovative capabilities as they are released.

Cost Savings and Risk Mitigation

Reduce the costs associated with dedicated internal administrators, software adoption, and staff turnover. Our experts configure, administer and optimize your projects to set you up for early and ongoing success.

Faster Time to Value

Skip months of trial-and-error configuration and instead accelerate your time to value by using our team’s expertise.

Maximized Efficiency

Free your team to focus on their core competencies by allowing our experts to focus on theirs: delivering an optimized platform configured to your specific needs and business processes.

Quality Evidence

DistillerSR’s experts will help you follow industry best practices to achieve auditable and standardized data, leading to faster regulatory submissions and more defensible research.

Unlocking the Platform’s Full Potential

DistillerSR experts will help you seamlessly adopt new, innovative capabilities, taking the guesswork out of how to leverage the latest tools to maximize your return on investment.

Training and Support

Interactive training  will get your team up to speed quickly. Access DistillerSR’s support team via phone, email or chat to resolve issues.

“We expected our team to become more efficient, and we were pleased with how smoothly the transition went and how quickly we started seeing positive results.”

– Stryker

 

Customer Stories

Global research organizations, including 80% of the top pharmaceutical and medical device companies trust DistillerSR

Medical Device

Philips was looking for a transparent, standardized platform for more efficient literature reviews and CER submissions. Implementing DistillerSR resulted in over 70% faster literature review screening while improving speed and accuracy for CER submissions.

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Medical Device

DistillerSR transformed BSCI’s literature review processes by improving efficiency, standardization, and traceability, which resulted in more accurate and consistent regulatory submissions.

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Academic

Learn how DistillerSR enables the University of Florida to screen more than 60,000 references and makes life for its research team a lot easier.

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Public

The Congress of Neurological Surgeons achieved fourfold efficiency for clinical guideline development with DistillerSR.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What types of reviews can be done with DistillerSR? Systematic reviews, living reviews, rapid reviews, or clinical evaluation report (CER) literature reviews?

Literature reviews can be a very simple or highly complex process, and literature reviews can use a variety of methods for finding, assessing, and presenting evidence. We describe DistillerSR as a literature review software because it supports all types of reviews, from systematic reviews to rapid reviews, and from living reviews to CER literature reviews.

DistillerSR software is used by over 300 customers in many different industries to support their evidence generation initiatives, from guideline development to HEOR analysis to CERs to post-market surveillance (PMS) and pharmacovigilance.

What are some of DistillerSR’s capabilities that support conducting systematic reviews?

Systematic reviews are the gold standard of literature reviews that aim to identify and screen all evidence relating to a specific research question. DistillerSR facilitates systematic reviews through a configurable, transparent, reproducible process that makes it easy to view the provenance of every cell of data.

DistillerSR was originally designed to support systematic reviews. The software handles dual reviewer screening, conflict resolution, capturing exclusion reasons while you work, risk of bias assessments, duplicate detection, multiple database searches, and reporting templates such as PRISMA. DistillerSR can readily scale for systematic reviews of all sizes, supporting more than 700,000 references per project through a robust enterprise-grade technical architecture. Using software like DistillerSR makes conducting systematic reviews easier to manage and configure to produce transparent evidence-based research faster and more accurately.

How does DistillerSR support clinical evaluation reports (CERs) and performance evaluation reports (PERs) program management?

The new European Union Medical Device Regulation (EU-MDR) and In-Vitro Device Regulation (EU-IVDR) require medical device manufacturers to increase the frequency, traceability, and overall documentation for CERs in the MDR program or PERs in the IVDR counterpart. Literature review software is an ideal tool to help you comply with these regulations.

DistillerSR automates literature reviews to enable a more transparent, repeatable, and auditable process, enabling manufacturers to create and implement a standard framework for literature reviews. This framework for conducting literature reviews can then be incorporated into all CER and PER program management plans consistently across every product, division, and research group.

How can DistillerSR help rapid reviews?

DistillerSR AI is ideal to speed up the rapid review process without compromising on quality. The AI-powered screening enables you to find references faster by continuously reordering relevant references, resulting in accelerated screening. The AI can also double-check your exclusion decisions to ensure relevant references are not left out of the rapid review.

DistillerSR title screening functionality enables you to quickly perform title screening on large numbers of references.

Does DistillerSR support living reviews?

The short answer is yes. DistillerSR has multiple capabilities that automate living systematic reviews, such as automatically importing newly published references into your projects and notifying reviewers that there’s screening to do. You can also put reports on an automated schedule so you’re never caught off guard when important new data is collected. These capabilities help ensure the latest research is included in your living systematic review and that your review is up-to-date. 

How can DistillerSR help ensure the accuracy of Literature and Systematic reviews?

The quality of systematic reviews is foundational to evidence-based research. However, quality may be compromised because systematic reviews – by their very nature – are often tedious and repetitive, and prone to human error. Tracking all review activity in systematic review software, like DistillerSR, and making it easy to trace the provenance of every cell of data, delivers total transparency and auditability into the systematic review process. DistillerSR enables reviewers to work on the same project simultaneously without the risk of duplicating work or overwriting each other’s results. Configurable workflow filters ensure that the right references are automatically assigned to the right reviewers, and DistillerSR’s cross-project dashboard allows reviewers to monitor to-do lists for all projects from one place.

Why should I add DistillerSR to my Literature and Systematic Review Toolbox and retire my current spreadsheet solution?

It’s estimated that 90% of spreadsheets contain formula errors and approximately 50% have material defects. These errors, coupled with the time and resources necessary to fix them, adversely impact the management of the systematic review process. DistillerSR software was specifically designed to address the challenges faced by systematic review authors, namely the ever-increasing volume of research to screen and extract, review bottlenecks, and regulatory requirements for auditability and transparency, as well as a tool for managing a remote global workforce. Efficiency, consistency, better collaboration, and quality control are just a few of the benefits you’ll get when you choose DistillerSR’s systematic review process over a manual spreadsheet tool for your reviews.

What about the security and scalability of systematic literature reviews done on DistillerSR?

DistillerSR builds security, scalability, and availability into everything we do, so you can focus on producing evidence-based research faster, more accurately, and more securely with our  systematic review software. We undergo an annual independent third-party audit and certify our products using the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants SOC 2 framework. In terms of scalability, systematic review projects in DistillerSR can easily handle a large number of references; some of our customers have over 700,000 references in their projects.

Do you offer any commitments on the frequency of new product and capability launches?

We pride ourselves on listening to and working with our customers to regularly introduce new capabilities that improve DistillerSR and the systematic review process. We typically do six releases a year and provide extensive release notes for our reviewers. Releases are zero-down time so they do not impact the availability of the platform.

I have a unique literature review protocol. Is your software configurable with my literature review data and process?

Configurability is one of the key foundations of DistillerSR software. In fact, with over 300 customers in many different industries, we have yet to see a literature review protocol that our software couldn’t handle. DistillerSR is a professional B2B SaaS company with an exceptional customer success team that will work with you to understand your unique requirements and systematic review process to get you started quickly. Our global support team is available 24/7 to help you.

Still unsure if DistillerSR will meet your systematic literature review requirements?

Adopting a new software is about more than just money. New software is also about commitment and trusting that the new platform will match your systematic review and scalability needs. We have resources to help you in your analysis and decision: check out the systematic review software checklist or the literature review software checklist.

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