The Med Safety App is a mobile application for healthcare professionals and members of the public to submit reports of suspected adverse events from medicines and vaccines. The App was developed through collaboration between IMI, WEB-RADR, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring, the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC). The technology is made available by MHRA on behalf of the WEB-RADR project on a not-for-profit basis.
The Med Safety App’s primary function is to report suspected adverse events from medicines and vaccines via the Medicine Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) form and Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI) form respectively. The Med Safety App also allows users to access safety related news articles and alerts from a country’s national health products regulator, view global safety data of all registered medicines and vaccines in their country, and to create a watch list of products of interest.
The Med Safety App provides a quick and easy way to report suspected adverse events, particularly when compared to traditional paper reporting systems. In the long-term, effective usage of the Med Safety App and/or other electronic reporting tools will help countries to eliminate less effective paper-based reporting systems.
For more information about the features and functionality of the Med Safety App, please click here. To view communication materials that have previously been used to promote the Med Safety App, see a repository of previous App launch events here.
The Med Safety App is available to download for free from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.