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

Applied AI forpharma & healthcare

An independent applied-AI lab building trustworthy AI for healthcare – applications for compliance, verification, comprehension, and privacy, and the open-source infrastructure that proves they work.

MHRA-registered medical device Used in 100+ countries
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Nick Lamb
Nick Lamb, PhD, CMPP Founder · 25+ years in medical communications
Recent Highlights
Five National Awards · PMEA Double Win Validation Study in Peer Review – Frontiers in Digital Health Redacta – 1,000+ installs Now in Anthropic's MCP Directory

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 100+ 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.

02Infrastructure

The infrastructure behind the applications

Reusable engineering components the products are built on – and that any evidence-grounded AI team can use.

Evaluation

OpenGATE

Evaluation for evidence-grounded AI

Gold sets, scorers, and CI regression gates that measure whether an AI system can prove its answers from source material. Evidence over plausibility.

Open source Retrieval

PubCrawl

Biomedical retrieval infrastructure

MCP server giving AI assistants direct access to PubMed's 37 million records, clinical trials, and drug labelling – real papers, no hallucinated citations.

Open source Privacy

Redacta Engine

On-device PII detection engine

Pseudonymises patient identifiers before text reaches AI – NHS-aware, reversible, benchmarked at 100% recall on synthetic UK clinical notes. Powers the Redacta app, iPhone app, and MCP connector.

Open source
Measured, not claimed – OpenGATE results across RefCheckr, Redacta, Patiently AI & PubCrawl
~0.95 F1
Claim extraction, near-full recall on the gold set
~50% → 0
Silent parse failures found, then eliminated
5.8% → 2.4%
Passage hallucination – drove the switch to sonar-pro
5 issues → fixed
Real production issues found across the products it evaluates — each fixed and verified same day
4 capabilities
Evidence QA, redaction, simplification & retrieval — one gate across the trust stack
CI gate
Regressions vs baseline fail the build
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03Playbook

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.

Explore the Playbook →
Medical Writing AI Playbook – a free resource by PharmaTools.AI

04Platform

The full suite

19 production systems spanning patient communication, compliance, and research

Most used – proven in production

Redacta
App Store MCP
Pseudonymise medical documents for safe AI processing – now in Anthropic's MCP Directory.
MedCheckr®
App Store Web
Check promotional claims against global pharma codes, with citation-grounded regulatory feedback.
PubCrawl MCP
Connect AI to real biomedical literature, FDA and UK drug labels, and clinical-trial data.

For Pharma & Medcomms (7)

RefCheckr
New Web
Verify medical claims against their references across PubMed, trials, and drug labels.
MedCheckr® ABPI App Store
Validate UK promotional materials against the ABPI Code.
Case Study Creator Beta
Build compelling case studies for pharma, medtech, and healthcare teams.
Pharmonym Beta
Convert brand and generic drug names, with official FDA and UK label data.
TrialGen
Web App Store
Generate compliant, memorable clinical trial acronyms.
LLMentor Web
Tailor medical text to any audience's reading level.
PLSease Web
Generate plain-language summaries from medical abstracts.

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 the hidden water and energy cost per AI query.

For Research (5)

BiomarkerFinder Open Source
Explain complex biomarker data in plain language.
SideEffectViz Open Source
Cluster and explore FDA adverse event data interactively.
PosterLens
App Store Open Source
Analyse and summarise scientific conference posters.
LitRAG Open Source
Run grounded RAG over PubMed abstracts, with a citation-faithfulness check.
Agent Trace Canvas
New Open Source
Visualise an AI agent's run on an infinite canvas, with per-step eval scores.
Labs · Experimental Early-stage tools and research projects, built in the open.
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05Consultancy

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.

Learn more →
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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