WEB-RADR

Recognise Adverse Drug Reactions on the Web (WEB-RADR) is a grant-supported project under the European Union (EU) Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking, with financial contributions from the EU and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations.

WEB-RADR is working on delivering two key outcomes:

• a mobile phone app for reporting suspected adverse effects by health professionals and patients to European Union regulators;
• new technical tools for data mining of publicly-available messaging shared on social media – exploring the potential of social media as a source of intelligence about patients’ experience of medicine.

Through collaboration between the WEB-RADR project, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring, the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC), and the MHRA, a generic multi-country version of the app, the Med Safety app, is available for wider adoption. The Med Safety app has been launched in Burkina Faso, Zambia, Armenia, Ghana, Ethiopia and Botswana.