PharmaTools.AI — Applied AI for Pharma & Health
Applied AI Lab · Oxford

Applied AI forpharma & healthcare

An independent applied-AI lab building tools for medical communications, compliance, and patient understanding.

MHRA-registered medical device Used in 90+ countries Validation study in peer review
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Nick Lamb, PhD, CMPP Founder · 25+ years in medical communications · Work with me →
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Recent Highlights
Five National Awards · PMEA Double Win Validation Study in Peer Review — Frontiers in Digital Health Redacta — 900+ installs Open-source MCP server

01Flagship

Flagship products

Two powerful platforms. One mission: advance healthcare communication with applied AI.

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Patiently AI

Clinical notes translated into language patients actually understand.

  • MHRA-registered Class I medical device
  • Used by patients in 90+ countries
  • Improves comprehension and informed decisions
Five national awards. Recognised for innovation in patient communication.
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Web Word Add-In New

RefCheckr

Verify, refine, and validate medical claims against real evidence.

  • Validates claims in seconds
  • Links to real, citable evidence
  • Reduces risk and review time
Minutes, not days. Built for medical writers and reviewers.

From patient understanding to scientific verification — AI built for healthcare communication.

02Playbook

AI Workflow Playbook for Medical Writing

A free framework showing where AI fits — and where it doesn't — in medical writing workflows. From literature discovery through to review-ready content.

10 Structured workflow cards with review checklists
04 AI risk tiers for regulated content
20+ Prompt patterns for source-grounded writing

Practical steps, prompt patterns, and review checklists for every stage of AI-assisted medical writing.

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▾ Discover literature PubCrawl
▾ Analyse evidence RefCheckr
▾ Draft & structure AI-assisted
▾ Adapt for audience LLMentor · Patiently AI
▾ Verify claims RefCheckr
▾ Check compliance MedCheckr
■ Final expert review Human medical writer

03Platform

The full suite

24 production systems spanning patient communication, compliance, research, and experimentation

For Pharma & Medcomms (8)

RefCheckr
New Web
Verify claims against their references. Search PubMed, clinical trials, and drug labelling.
MedCheckr® Web
Check promotional claims against global pharma codes in real time. Citation-grounded regulatory feedback.
MedCheckr® ABPI App Store
Validate UK promotional materials against the ABPI Code.
Case Study Creator Beta
AI-powered case studies for pharma, medtech, and healthcare teams.
Pharmonym Beta
Convert brand and generic drug names with built-in class and safety data.
TrialGen
Web App Store
Create compliant clinical trial acronyms.
LLMentor Web
Tailor medical text for any audience in seconds.
PLSease Web
Generate plain language summaries from medical abstracts in seconds.

Built for teams who work in regulated science.

For Patients & Public (4)

Patiently AI
Web App Store
Turn clinical notes into clear, personalised patient explanations.
AI Jargon Buster Beta
Translate complex medical language into plain English.
HushMap App Store
Discover quiet spaces for sensory-sensitive users.
Water Consumption Calculator Popular
Estimate hidden water and energy impact per query.

For Research (6)

BiomarkerFinder Beta
Complex biomarker data, explained in plain language.
SideEffectViz Beta
Cluster and explore FDA adverse event data interactively.
PosterLens App Store
Analyse and summarise scientific posters using AI.
PubCrawl MCP
Connect AI to real biomedical literature, drug labels, and trial data.
LitRAG Open Source
Grounded RAG over PubMed abstracts with a built-in citation-faithfulness check.
Agent Trace Canvas
New Open Source
Visualise an AI agent's run on an infinite canvas, with per-step eval scoring.

Labs (6)

Experimental systems. Not commercial products.

Redacta
900+ installs Experiment
Pseudonymise medical documents for safe AI processing. Free, open-source skill.
The RSI Loop Experiment
An RSI for RSI caused by building RSIs.
Atacama Experiment
A compact LSTM trained to predict desert weather patterns.
PlaceboGPT Experiment
An AI that does absolutely nothing — with confidence.
Media Monitoring Hub Experiment
LLM-powered coverage monitoring, classification, and briefing generation.
PathwAIs Experiment
Personalised eLearning that adapts in real time to level, time, and learning style.

04Consultancy

Applied AI consulting

Adopt AI with clarity — not hype

Hands-on advisory for pharma, medtech, and healthcare teams — grounded in building and shipping AI products, including an MHRA-registered patient-facing medical device. From focused prototypes to patient-facing AI strategy.

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Patient-facing AI advisory
AI tool prototypes
Compliance-aware AI design
Workflow automation
RAG & knowledge workflows
API & product integration

Interested in working together?

Explore how applied AI can support your team — from compliance to patient communication.

— Nick Lamb, Founder

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