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Artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical trials: Implications for evidence synthesis and market access

October 26, 2023 Mtech Access Season 5 Episode 5
Pharma Market Access Insights - from Mtech Access
Artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical trials: Implications for evidence synthesis and market access
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How is Artificial Intelligence being used in the development of new medicines? What role can AI currently play in clinical trials? Where can AI bridge gaps and solve challenges? What could this mean for the future of market access?

In this webinar, Dr George Magrath explains how his team at Lexitas are using AI in clinical trials in the field of ophthalmology. George and Calum explore:

- How, when and where AI is being used in clinical trials
- How Lexitas are using AI in clinical trials for ophthalmology
- Where AI may offer solutions to existing obstacles in clinical trials and ophthalmic drug development
- What the future holds for AI in the development of new medicines
- The role AI can play in selecting patients for clinical trials
- The impact AI may have on the way we evaluate drug effectiveness
- What this all means for evidence synthesis, health economics, reimbursement and market access
- The future prospects of AI in pharmaceutical development

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This episode was first broadcast as a live webinar in August 2023. 

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- [Narrator] Welcome to this Mtech Access webinar. At Mtech Access, we provide health economics and outcomes research and market access services from strategy through to implementation. Get in touch today to discuss your market access goals. First, though, I hope you enjoy the webinar.- Well, thank you everyone for being able to join today, our Global Whispers webinar. My name is Calum Jones, I'm a senior consultant health economist at Mtech Access. I've been within this space for the last decade. Today I'll be delighted to be hosting our Global Whispers webinar with a special guest who I'll introduce or ask to introduce in a second, as we're focusing on evidence generation side of market access. So today actually, specifically, we're thinking as a topic, artificial intelligence in clinical trials, implications for evidence synthesis, and market access. Now, today, having had a good look at the list of signups, I think we've got a great mix of audience, really mixed between industry and healthcare systems. And particularly, I'd like to welcome our global affiliate partners, who play a key role in the work that we do. For those of us who maybe aren't so familiar with Mtech Access, we're a global specialist health economics outcomes and market access consultancy, a track record in expert delivery, and we provide specialist support to pharmaceutical and MedTech clients. And we work as a collaborative partner, first and foremost to healthcare systems in the UK and worldwide. So, as said, today we're going to be looking at clinical trials and how artificial intelligence is being used, what this means for evidence generation and market access. And to that end, to introduce my guest, I'm delighted to be able to welcome George Magrath, CEO at Lexitas Pharma Services. So perhaps my first question, I could begin with George, welcome, and perhaps, please, George, you could take a moment to introduce yourself and your role at Lexitas Pharma Services.- Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, Calum. It's such a pleasure to be here, and such an important and interesting topic. So I'm excited to talk to you about some of our experience and what we've been, what we've been doing with artificial intelligence in clinical trials. So my background is I'm a physician, finished med school, finished residency and fellowship, and then went and became an equity analyst. And so I was an equity analyst for Edison Investment Research in New York for quite some time. And then went to the sponsor side, where we developed products at a company called Hovione in dermatology, inhalation, and ophthalmology. And then most recently, I moved to Lexitas, which is an ophthalmic-specific clinical research organisation. We're around 200 full-time employees. We, at any one time, are managing and running 30 to 40 ophthalmic clinical trials. And we have been implementing artificial intelligence into a number of our trials in various ways that I'm sure we'll talk about.- Marvellous. Thank you very much, George. It does sound like we've identified the perfect candidate for today as a guest, so thank you. Thinking a bit about, I suppose the history of how you've got to this fascinating point. How has your personal career path led you into your current role? I mean, what do you think the key aspects of that have been?- Oh, I mean, the key thread is that I've spent my entire career trying to, trying to advance healthcare, right, in any way I can. And so, whether it's, whether it was seeing patients or on the capital allocation side, or in true drug development, it's been a varied career with a common thread that I enjoy working with people who are on the forefront of advancing healthcare for both the United States and outside.- Brilliant, thank you. And I suppose this has a lot to do with bringing in, I suppose, opportunity and benefits for more artificial intelligence in clinical trials. Maybe a specific, I suppose, focus in that respect and laterally in more recent years.- Yeah, yeah. So in for more recent years, you know, the way we're, the big shift that we're seeing in clinical trials is that the typical way to think about clinical trials was all around FDA regulations, right? So FDA approval going for FDA-approved endpoints. And what we're seeing now is, in addition to that, that certainly is important for a number of reasons. But in addition to that, we're looking at endpoints that are going to affect real-world outcomes for patients, for payer access, and for physician and patient uptake, right? What we've seen, what we've had some experience with, or a number of projects where you get an FDA approval, but the market access might not be great because of the design of the clinical trials. And so that's one of the key characteristics that we're now thinking about in clinical trials as we develop.- Perfect. No, thank you. I think we can, it'd be great to touch on that in more detail very shortly. I wonder, about Lexitas Pharma Services and I suppose that the company's vision, would you like, before we get into the detail on how we're seeing an impact in trials of AI, what that vision of Lexitas Pharma Services is, and the company's main functions, really?- Oh, yeah. So the vision for Lexitas is to be a clinical development partner for ophthalmic companies, right? So we typically partner with any size of company that's developing in ophthalmology, whether it's a tiny biotech with one or two people all the way up to large pharmaceutical companies. And what we do is we offer really specific solutions for how to get their, how to get their medication, their drug from, you know, from preclinical into an approved status. So that's what we've specialise in. We do a lot of regulatory work, we do a lot of medical strategy work, we do a lot of clinical operations, biostatistics, things like that. So that's really the core of what Lexitas does.- Thank you, that's really helpful to understand. And thinking now, I suppose a bit more generally about the role of artificial intelligence in drug development and clinical trials, and perhaps coming at this from somewhat of a, you could say, a sort of 30,000-foot overview, if that's something we can achieve, could you please possibly shed light on really the applications of artificial intelligence in the pharmaceutical or indeed the medical devices development process, particularly with regard to creating new medicines?- Yeah, absolutely. So on the actual drug discovery side, I know that there are many people who are using artificial intelligence to help target specific receptors, specific mechanisms within the cellular biology. But at Lexitas, we are further downstream than that when we're running clinical trials. And so the way that artificial intelligence affects us is really around several different points. The first point is around the development of inclusion-exclusion criteria, right? So one of the things that we always are trying to do, one of the key principles of trial design, is getting the right medicines to the right patient at the right time, right? So we want to capture the patient at the right moment in their pathology, where we expect the medicine to have the maximum benefit. And we want to, we want to capture patients who actually have the right cellular biology to respond to the mechanism of action. And there's sometimes there's a discord between the, between the phenotype, right? What the physician can actually see on evaluation and what's happening. A good example of that is diabetic eye disease. Diabetics have very complicated pathobiology, and in the eye, some of it's VEGF-mediated, or vascular endothelial growth factor-mediated, where you get leakage of the blood vessels, growth of new blood vessels. And another aspect of it is inflammatory, where you get, where you get breakdown of the blood-retinal barrier. You get, you get a lot of sequelae from chronic inflammation. And so, you know, one of the, one of the things that we've used artificial intelligence for, we currently are developing is to look at, to look at patients' characteristics at baseline, right? Whether it's imaging characteristics or patient history, and see if the computer can predict the patients that are going to respond more to anti-inflammatories or respond more to anti-VEGF-mediated pathways. And that, the way you develop that, the way we're developing that is we're taking a real-world data set of patients who are treated with either VEGF or steroid, and we're looking at that response. And so we're feeding the baseline information into the computer, and then we're also feeding in whether or not that patient responded. And it's a very binary thing, right? We literally are just telling the computer, the patient responded or the patient didn't respond, and we're asking the computer if they can develop an algorithm to predict the patients who respond and don't respond based off all of the initial criteria. And so that's the first way that we're using artificial intelligence is to try our best to pick out the right patients to include in trials. The next way we're using artificial intelligence is on the other end of the trial, where we're evaluating the effect of the drug, right?- Yeah.- So obviously, the two things that we care about are, is the drug safe, and is the drug efficacious? And so we use artificial intelligence to help us really with both of those, right? So we look at, we have the computer look at all of the patients who were treated and try to identify commonalities between the treated, between the treated patients, right? So we're using it specifically to, I'll give you a specific example. So we use something called OCT, optical coherence tomography. It's a way to get high-resolution cross-sectional scans through the retina at a resolution of about eight, an axial resolution of about eight microns or so. And it gives you a number about 512 slices through the retina. And we're using artificial intelligence right now to interpolate those results to the remainder of the retina to give us a volume of fluid in diabetics. And so you have swelling in diabetics. Typically, the old way we would do it is we would just measure the thickness of the retina in any one slice, right? We call that central retinal thickness. What we're doing now is we're actually getting a volumetric measurement in microliters of what the volume of fluid is, which is a fantastic advance. The other advances that are using artificial intelligence are really around adaptive optics. So these are the ability to see individual photoreceptors and evaluate those. And so the deep learning algorithms are a critical piece to this. And there are a number of companies, Retina AI, Voxeleron, there's a number of computer science companies that are honing in on this and have been great partners for us. Ophthalytics is another one that are doing great work in the field. So those are the two ways that we typically use artificial intelligence is to select the right patients for the right trials, and then also to gain further insights into the safety and efficacy of the medicines we're testing.- That's incredibly interesting to understand. Thank you. And I'm just wondering, when you're using AI to, I mean, perhaps specifically around patient selection, are there any particular strategies you think might be applicable in some cases, better than others? Are there different ways in which this AI can be leveraged in that respect?- Yeah, absolutely. The different buckets that we put in, number one is an imaging bucket, right? So the images, ophthalmology is a very image-intensive field, right? Whether it's photographs of the eye or OCTs that I mentioned, or fluorescein angiograms, there's a lot of different ways to image the eye. And those images typically rely on pattern recognition from human, right? So that's the traditional way that we do it. And we are augmenting that pattern recognition by humans with pattern recognition by the computer. And so that's one bucket is with image recognition. And that's really pretty simple. I mean, it literally is feeding jpeg images that are into a computer with certain classifiers. And really, you know, there are some big data sets. We've trained models on as few as 70 patients, so we don't have to have a massive data set to get a good model. Now, I will tell you that all of the computer scientists we work with will tell you that obviously, the more patients you have, the better the model will be. But, you know, we certainly have done it with smaller data sets as well. So one bucket is imaging, the second bucket is around genetics. And, you know, genetics are an interesting field, right? Because there are certain genetic mutations that have been in class, right? So you actually get the report back from the geneticist that says,"Hey, here's the code on, here's the code on alteration, and this is known to be pathogenic." But you have a whole subset of genetic anomalies that we aren't sure if they're pathogenic or not. And they can happen in a lot of different combination. And you can get a lot of data where, you know, essentially the geneticist will tell you,"Hey, this is possibly pathogenic, but we don't know." And so using the computer to look through all of that data and try to pick out patterns amongst patients is really going to be on the forefront of what we're doing from a genetic standpoint, particularly in eye disease. Because the world of inherited retinal degeneration is a very ripe field for this kind of work. You know, the first gene therapy was developed by Spark Therapeutics for RPE65, which is an eye condition. And so gene therapy in the eye is, it is quite a big field. And so the genetics are the second bucket where the computer algorithm's really helping us. And then the third bucket, I would say, is looking at the overall patient picture, right? There are partners of ours out there that are working with mining the EMR, right? So the algorithm can actually go into the electronic medical record and look at characteristics of patients and use that to, use that to try to pick out patterns about how the patients are responding, pick out patients that meet inclusion-exclusion criteria, and produce essentially a list of patients for the clinical trial, potential patients. And so using the algorithms to look into the EMRs is incredibly powerful, particularly if you can get an EMR that's cloud-based and deployed across the country or across the globe. It allows you to really select out where you're going to open clinical trial sites.- Yes.- We've used technology like this to say,"Okay, we need a site, and, you know, we need to use London, New York, and Miami, you know, for our sites because that's where the patients are, things like that. So that's a really powerful way to identify patients, is looking at the EMR at the entire patient picture to find patients, and really to look for patterns in the EMR for patients who respond to different treatments and things like that based on their criteria that have been entered.- That's really, really interesting. Thank you, George. And I'm just thinking, we've already started looking, I suppose, more deeply in its implication, the implication of AI use within ophthalmology clinical trials there, and some solutions to the existing obstacles, I suppose. You've outlined imaging, genetics, patient selection. I wonder if we could just touch a bit on sort of the, presumably it's not just an improved accuracy and efficiency of the process, but inherent to that efficiency is a time saving, I'd imagine. Is that fair to say? I mean, what are the general time implications or time-saving implications of using AI in this way, do you feel?- Oh, absolutely. So two aspects to it, right? Number one is the more you know about your drug, the more you know about how your drug affects people, right, the easier it is to power your study. So in an ideal scenario, if you're able to use that AI to either, to either pick out patients that are more likely to respond or to have more refined endpoints, then you can decrease the number of patients you need to enrol, which is a fantastic thing, right? Because you don't, you want to keep your trials to the minimum size necessary to power the trial to show safety and efficacy. And that's just the core principle of clinical work. The second way that it's affecting what we do, so at Lexitas, enrollment in clinical trials, which is directly related to the timelines, right? So slow enrollment is the number one reason why clinical trials run long. And in the industry, the industry averages that 80% of clinical trials across the globe and across therapeutic area do not enrol as expected. They enrol slower than expected. At Lexitas, we actually are the exact opposite. So we're enrolling ahead of target or at target on 86% of our trials right now. And we do that based on a lot of aspects outside of artificial intelligence. We do a lot on relationships. We do it a lot on the details of protocols, making sure that they're achievable by the sites and the patients. But we also do use a lot of data to make sure that when we go to a place that we're finding the right patients, right? A good example of that is a paediatric rare disease, inherited retinal degeneration study that we're doing where these patients are, you know, a handful across the globe and being able to identify these patients is, relies deeply on computer algorithms finding where these genetic mutations exist, tracking them back to where the patients are, and then offering these children and their families treatment if they wish to participate.- Yes. No, that, I mean, the benefits of using AI within ophthalmology clinical trials seem extremely numerous actually. I was just wondering, and this is probably inherent, I'd imagine, to devising and overseeing, and seeing the successful use of AI within these clinical trials. What are the certain maybe risks or potential challenges that need to be recognised and mitigated for, or any kind of potential limitations that need to be overcome and therefore smoothed out as you're applying this? Presumably, we're still to the relatively early stage of using this technology?- Oh, absolutely. I mean, just like any technology in the early stage, we're extremely careful with how we deploy it, right? I mean, particularly with stakes as high as they are in clinical development with patients getting new medicines, it's critically important that we go deliberately, we go knowingly, and we, we are very intentional about how we deploy it. And so, it's something we take very seriously. What we don't want to have happen is we don't want to have any sort of, you know, unknown consequence of the AI, right? We don't want to end up excluding different people populations from trials unnecessarily, right? People that may have benefited from the drug. That's the other side of trying to pick out the right patient is if we get too narrow, then you've got a drug that truly hasn't been studied like it should. And so that's something that we take very seriously. The whole diversity and inclusion aspect of clinical trials is a big deal right now, and it's something we're very intentional about. And so that's the aspect that I'm hitting on there. The other part of it is sometimes we don't fully know the characteristics of the algorithm, particularly if it's looking at imaging data, right? So it picks out patterns, but the computer doesn't always tell us exactly what it's picking out. And so there's always a chance that it's looking at essentially a false positive, right? The computer is looking at something to pick out a pattern that's not a true biologic, you know, pathobiologic correlate with the disease. And so we have to be very careful with that as well. There are also unknowns based on, on the FDA regulatory pathway. I know that Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA commissioner, has published recently a good amount on the AI frameworks at the US FDA, and I know that the FDA itself has been looking hard at this and has been publishing some draft guidances around this. But it's an evolving regulatory world as far as, as far as use of AI in clinical trials go. And also the real-world implications, right? So in a clinical trial, we can closely control trials with our algorithms, but once the drug is approved and it's being used by physicians and patients around the world, you know, they may or may not have access to that algorithm as particularly in less developed countries. It's going to be a paradigm shift to utilise this in real-world clinical trial, real-world medicine. And so those are all considerations that we have to take. And balance, right? It is a tight balance because those are some pretty significant challenges to overcome, but the advantages of being able to get the right medicine to the right patient at the right time, I think, outweigh that. And we just have to work through the challenges in a really deliberate and intentional way as we all navigate this new field, these new possibilities.- Yes, no, that is actually, that's really fascinating. And I suppose when thinking about AI even generally, so often the focus is on how, as I think one would want in any model, how do we essentially smooth out and limit the biases that might be inherent, even just implicitly or even accidentally, and I don't even necessarily mean diversity inclusion, but how, when you're applying AI, how do you assess, really, potential existence of bias and, therefore, a sort of parsimonious smoothing out of that bias, if that's at all a relevant consideration?- Yeah, it is a relevant consideration. And I can tell you, I can tell you how we approach it, and I think there are numerous ways to approach it, but the number one way we approach it is, is that all of our clinical trials are still being run with at least some studies in the clinical development pathway that do not utilise artificial intelligence or deep learning algorithms. So we still do have. You know, every clinical development programme, right, is numerous trials. Most of the time, there's anywhere from, you know, five to 10 trials before a drug gets approved. And at least some of those trials are either safety trials or early-stage trials or late-stage trials that are enrolling very diverse populations, right? And so the data exists, and so what you can do on the back end is you can compare, right? So you can look at the data from your traditional trials, you can look at the data from the enhanced trials with different algorithms, and you can evaluate, right, what's happening. And so we haven't gotten to the point yet, and I still think it'll be a while before we get to this point where we are developing, doing an entire development programme based on some aspect of a computer algorithm. We still are, I mean, the way it's working now is the early-stage trials are being done, essentially, in broad populations without computer intelligence. And then the later-stage trials are being honed based on models created through that process, so you're gathering the input data for the model from the earlier trials. And so that does help protect you against bias, and that's how we're doing it at Lexitas. And I'm sure that there's a lot of different ways of detecting bias from a computer science aspect of it that are outside of, outside of my scope.- Oh, but that's tremendously interesting to understand. Thank you, George. And actually helps me understand a great deal better how that's mitigated or prevented. Thinking in terms, just as sort of, I suppose, related to that, are there any key real-world practical considerations around applying, or frankly, actually, let's focus on perhaps on regulating the use of AI-informed efficacy in effectiveness estimates. What do you think some of the key considerations and hot topics are going to be or currently are, frankly, around the use of estimates of efficacy being informed by artificial intelligence?- Yeah, so currently, artificial intelligence is being used, so when you're evaluating efficacy, when you're looking at endpoint evaluation, the number one thing we care about is improvement in patient quality of life, right? Functional life. And most of the artificial intelligence endpoints are around structural changes. So what, you know, changes in the actual anatomy. And so I think one of the good checks and balances here, and one of the good things that we need to all keep in mind is that at the end of the day, the thing that matters is not what the computer algorithm pops out, it's how the patients respond to the medicine and the day-to-day difference in their lives that it makes. And that's the core, that's the core of clinical development. And I think that those are going to continue to be primary endpoints, right? With the artificial intelligence-driven algorithms being supplemental endpoints help us understand why, you know, the science behind it, why is this, what exactly is this drug doing that's leading to a positive impact in this patient's life? So that's how I see it, and that's honestly how I look at my trials is, yeah, it's wonderful, and it's so important to understand the structural anatomical changes to the pathobiology, but at the end of the day, it's kind of, I mean, it's as simple as the so what matter, right? So the question is, you know, you've modified this disease, so what does that mean for the patient? And that's what I care about.- No, that makes a lot of sense to me, George, and I thank you. I wonder, I mean, as mentioned at the beginning, that Mtech Access are involved in evidence synthesis and market access, and health economics. So I suppose from interest from our side, regarding evidence synthesis running, say, systematic reviews and so forth, how do you feel artificial intelligence presence might alter approaches to evidence synthesis from trial data? Are there any examples you can perhaps share in that respect?- Yeah, well, I can tell you there's some ongoing, there's some ongoing efforts within ophthalmology particularly that get at this, right? So in ophthalmology, we're privileged and blessed to have a, to have a massive registry of clinical data that's kept by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. It's called the IRIS Registry. And it's a database of, at this point, likely hundreds of thousands of patients that can be mined, right? And I think that that volume of big data sets in the real-world are just a gold mine for computer algorithms to go through. And the key advance to that registry that quite hasn't quite happened yet but is on the horizon is going to be the addition of clinical images, right? So OCT images from the photography into a database like that. Retina Consultants of America is a great example. They are a group of 200 retina specialists in the United States, in America, that just put all their images into the cloud. And Retina AI is a company that specialises in artificial intelligence for the retina, has just announced a partnership with them to evaluate their images. And so that's a real example in the recent, in the recent news of real-world evaluation of images using computer algorithms. I think it's going to, think it's going to be more and more. I think, you know, we are just implementing machine learning, deep learning into clinical trials. I think that the next logical step is going to be implementing it into everyday practise. And it's going to be an amazing tool for physicians to have. You know, I'm envisioning a day, like, it would be fantastic to envision a day where you can truly, you can truly predict a patient's course of disease and whether or not a drug can actually modify it. So rather than just saying, you know,"Ms. Jones, you have macular degeneration, you may or may not lose vision in the future," you know? I would love to be able to say with a lot of certainty exactly what's going to happen, and if we treat you, you know, we would expect you to improve, or it's not as likely to improve. And so those are some of the real-world things that I see when I see my patients that I wish I could answer with more certainty.- No, indeed. They're fascinating. And actually, with respect to evidence synthesis, as you're touching on there, and actually some of the perhaps the highly achievable goals that we could see in the future, I was thinking there AI, I imagine, could be used increasingly to answer well-specified questions, which may otherwise be, take more resource and other considerations to undertake. It may speed up and perhaps make that a more accurate endeavour answer at the end of it. I wonder, however, could AI be used, do you feel, not just to answer the questions that exist but actually to devise the right set of next questions?- That's an interesting question, and I think that the answer is going to be, I mean, I think the answer is yes, and I think that the extrapolation on that is that artificial intelligence is going to give us new information about medicines, right? And how they impact people. And that new information will create a whole new set of questions. So as we continue to learn more about disease pathology, responses to medicines on imaging, on genetics for gene therapies, things like that, I think it's, I think there's going to be all kinds of questions that arise from that.- Hmm. No, thank you, George. Similarly, I wonder, would you be comfortable, George, to think about how, if we could delve into essentially a connection between artificial intelligence and health economics, and I suppose specifically, how do you feel that the relationship between AI and health economics might influence strategies for both pricing and reimbursement? Or either or?- Mm-hmm, yeah. Well, right now, I mean, so a huge... So if you can increase the efficacy of a drug, right? So whether it's by better design of the drug in the drug discovery process using AI, whether it's refinement of the patient population on who gets the drug or when they get the drug in their diseased pathology, that is going to be a big thing. Gimme just one second.- For George's benefit, I understand that George had a flat tyre this morning and is very, very generously delivering his portion here from the side of a highway. So we're very grateful to him for that flexibility. So, no, no, thank you again, George. But you were saying, of course, this is pertinent to, of course, who and when receives the drug.- Yeah, yeah. So who or when they receive the drug, and it's a, and so from a health economic standpoint, if you can reduce the unnecessary exposure, that is going to make a huge impact on pricing, on expenditure, and on unnecessary treatments. So I think that there's a direct correlation right there.- Yes, yes. And, may I ask, George, are you okay for one more question? I gather you may be under demand elsewhere?(George chuckles)- [George] Yeah.- No, thanks. Okay, well, just one more then. Thank you so much. Just the future of artificial intelligence in drug development. Perhaps briefly, could you outline your thoughts on the future prospects of AI in pharmaceutical development? For example, what sort of transformation might we expect in years to come?- Oh, we can expect it to touch every aspect. So we talked about drug discovery, it's going to allow us to have more targeted medicines. It's going to allow us to be more efficient with what we, with what we do in clinical operations and clinical development. And it's going to help us, it's going to help us in the real-world get the right medicines to the right patients. So it's really going to be transformational.- That's an exciting future, I'm sure. And George, thank you so much for a truly wonderful immersion you've given us into the world of AI in clinical trials with an ophthalmology focus. Please feel free to leave now if indeed the highway calls. But I'd like to say thank you to everyone, of course, who's joined for listening to our conversation today. I've certainly found it fascinating and enjoyed it. We will follow up with any of the questions that we didn't cover today. Though these were informed largely from what we received from everyone on the call, and we're grateful for that. And we'll be happy to help signpost anyone in the right place if they'd like to continue this conversation. So thank you very much, George. Thank you everyone for attending today, and I hope everyone has a terrific week to come.- [Narrator] Thank you for watching. If you'd like to find out more about our work or how we could support your market access goals, please email info@mtechaccess.co.uk or visit our website at mtechaccess.co.uk.

Introductions and background
Applications of AI when creating new medicines / medical devices
AI in patient selection for clinical trials
Time-saving implications of using AI
Risks or potential challenges of using AI in clinical trials
How to assess potential biases when using AI
Regulating the use of AI-informed efficacy in effectiveness estimates
Impact of AI on evidence synthesis
Using AI to devise the right set of next questions
AI and health economics
Future prospects of AI in pharmaceutical development