PHARMACOVIGILANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING CASCADING FILTERS AND MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO CLASSIFY AND DISCERN PHARMACEUTICAL TRENDS FROM SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS

摘要

Systems and methods for utilizing filters to reduce an incoming stream of textual messages to a smaller subset of potentially relevant textual messages, and using trained machine learning models to analyze and classify the content of such textual messages. Analyzed messages that belong to a relevant class as determined by the machine learning model are stored in a database, giving users the ability to determine and analyze trends from the subset of messages, such as adverse side effects caused by pharmaceuticals or the efficacy of pharmaceuticals. Relationships between the side effects caused by different pharmaceuticals can be used to predict potential candidates for drug repositioning.