New in AERS Signal Management for the Oracle Empirica Signal 8.1.1 Release

This section describes what is new in interactive AERS Signal Management (version 2.x) relative to the prior scripted AERS Signal Management (version 1.x).

With interactive AERS Signal Management, you can:

• Manage list of drugs to monitor and signaling terms from within the application rather than externally.
• Initiate a refresh from within the application rather than externally.
• Use newly added Female and Male subpopulations and alerts.
• Use review periods.

Underlying column names that were similar to US_N_SINCE_PRIORn are now called USNEW_N_PRIORn, and Keep Under Review (KUR) events have been renamed as Targeted Medical Events (TMEs).

Additionally, a mechanism for converting an existing scripted signal configuration to a new interactive signal configuration is available. For more information, see:

• Ability to convert an AERS signal configuration from scripted to interactive
  A mechanism for converting a scripted signal configuration to a new interactive signal configuration is available.