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 Peer-reviewed research
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Nick Lamb
Nick Lamb, PhD, CMPPFounder · 25+ years in medical communications
Recent Highlights
Five National Awards · PMEA Double WinValidation Study in Peer Review – Frontiers in Digital HealthOpen-source suite – 3,000+ downloads/monthNow in Anthropic's MCP Directory

01Flagship

Flagship products

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

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iOSAndroidWeb

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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WebWord Add-InNew

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

One standard, four open systems

OpenGATE is the verification standard. PubCrawl, Redacta and StudyDiff are the open systems it gates – reusable engineering any evidence-grounded AI team can adopt.

The verification standard

OpenGATE

Deterministic, gold-anchored verification – gold sets, scorers and CI regression gates that check whether an AI system can prove its answers from source material. No LLM judge; evidence over plausibility. It gates every system below on every release.

npmPyPIDockerOpen source
3,000+downloads a month across the open-source suiteExplore OpenGATE →
Retrieval

PubCrawl

Biomedical retrieval infrastructure

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

Open sourceGated by OpenGATEPrivacy

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 app, iPhone app, and MCP connector.

Open sourceGated by OpenGATEComparison

StudyDiff

Grounded study-contradiction engine

A Claude-native agent that explains why two studies disagree – extracting each design, ranking the likely drivers, and grounding every claim in the source. Never reports a finding it can't verify.

Open sourceGated by OpenGATE
Measured, not claimed – OpenGATE results across RefCheckr, Redacta, Patiently AI & PubCrawl · written up as a paper
~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 verifies — each fixed and confirmed closed 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.

10Structured workflow cards with review checklists
04AI 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 StoreMCP
Pseudonymise medical documents for safe AI processing – now in Anthropic's MCP Directory.
MedCheckr®
App StoreWeb
Check promotional claims against global pharma codes, with citation-grounded regulatory feedback.
PubCrawlMCP
Connect AI to real biomedical literature, FDA and UK drug labels, and clinical-trial data.

For Pharma & Medcomms (7)

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

For Patients & Public (4)

Patiently AI
WebApp Store
Turn clinical notes into clear, personalised patient explanations.
AI Jargon BusterBeta
Translate complex medical language into plain English.
HushMapApp Store
Discover quiet spaces for sensory-sensitive users.
Water Consumption CalculatorPopular
Estimate the hidden water and energy cost per AI query.

For Research (5)

BiomarkerFinderOpen Source
Explain complex biomarker data in plain language.
SideEffectVizOpen Source
Cluster and explore FDA adverse event data interactively.
PosterLens
App StoreOpen Source
Analyse and summarise scientific conference posters.
LitRAGOpen Source
Run grounded RAG over PubMed abstracts, with a citation-faithfulness check.
Agent Trace Canvas
NewOpen Source
Visualise an AI agent's run on an infinite canvas, with per-step eval scores.
Labs · ExperimentalEarly-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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