Release - Version 2.3.0

You can find the Validation Documentation here

Note that this software version is validated for the web browsers Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, as these are the two most commonly used browsers.

Flinn.ai 2.3.0 Release Highlights

Get ready for a faster, smarter, and more powerful experience with Flinn.ai! Here’s what’s new:

Advanced Search Configurator: Customize multiple queries with unique filters and keywords for different databases, and preview results before running your search.
Google Scholar Integration: Google Scholar joins the data sources lineup, allowing you to combine it with PubMed and Cochrane for broader literature searches. This feature can be enabled at request.
Streamlined Systematic Reviews: Introducing an improved two-step workflow for literature reviews: Screening and full-text evaluation
Expanded Vigilance Monitoring: Now monitor governmental incident databases from France (ANSM) and Spain (AEMPS) in English, thanks to built-in translations. This feature can be enabled at request.
Clinical Trials on Flinn: Access clinical trial data from the WHO ICTRP database, including ongoing and concluded trials across global registries. This feature can be enabled at request.
Improved PDF Viewer: Let Flinn highlight your search terms within full-text PDFs and search through documents faster than ever.
Enhanced Exports: Export reports and RIS files with enriched data, including abstract information, evaluation statuses, and paper links.

Plus, numerous usability improvements and speed boosts make Flinn more efficient and user-friendly than ever!

Moreover, you may find more new features that were released with an interim update during the summer (i.e. V2.2.). If you want to learn more, take a look here.

Global Improvements

🔎 Many queries with a single search

→ Instead of long and complex queries, Flinn now offers to use multiple queries per search

→ Use different filters and keywords per databases (e.g. Mesh terms for PubMed, while Title and Abstract for Cochrane)

→ Better traceability: See the result number per sub-query before executing the search

→ Automatic deduplication across multiple queries within the search

📝 Find essential information quickly with a better PDF viewer

→ Let Flinn highlight your search keywords in the full text PDF

→ Search through the full-text paper by using the new PDF search functionality

💡 Copy existing work to a new search

→ Save time by avoiding evaluation of the same paper twice

→ When opening a previously evaluated paper, you are now able to copy the previous evaluation, appraisal & data analysis information to your new search

→ Works across your organization

⚡ Increased platform speed

→ We reduced loading times across the entire platform

→ Enjoy a more pleasant Finn experience through many technical improvements

Module 1: Vigilance

🇫🇷 Monitor the French Incident database (ANSM) in Flinn

→ The French database ANSM is now available as a data source in the search configurator

→ Search with English keywords in ANSM: We translated the database content using a validated translation service

🇪🇸 Monitor the Spanish Incident database (AEMPS) in Flinn

→ The Spanish database AEMPS is now available as a data source in the search configurator

→ Search with English keywords in AEMPS: We translated the database content using a validated translation service

📩 Improved Export

→ Enjoy an improved documentation report with better structure & naming

→ Adjusted for the two-step evaluation workflow

→ Adjusted for multiple queries & data sources per search

→ Download the updated excel by selecting the export functionality in your search

Module 2: Literature

🎓 Find Google Scholar results in Flinn

→Search through the entire Google Scholar data source directly on Flinn

→ You can find this option in your search when defining your data source

→ We will display the top 200 results relevant to your search query

→ Make your search more exhaustive through combining Google Scholar, PubMed & Cochrane results in one search through multi-queries

⚠️ Beta feature: This feature is still in early development and may evolve as we refine it. Your feedback is important to help us make it better!

✅ Improved systematic review workflow

→ We reworked the screening & evaluation workflow in Flinn to better fit it to your process and improved compliance & traceability

→ Screening & Full-text evaluations are now two separate steps:

Screening: Mark records as relevant, needs review or excluded based on title and abstract
Full-text evaluation: Mark records as included or excluded

→ Find all your papers marked as relevant in the “full text evaluation” tab (Previously “included” tab)

→ Overview of naming for record status

Before (2.2.0)	Now (2.3.0)
Included (screening)	Relevant
Possibly relevant	Needs review
Included (full-text)	Included
Excluded	Excluded

🩺 Clinical Trials

→ Access clinical trial data on Flinn! We integrated a first version of the WHO ICTRP clinical trial database, which you can select in the search configurations of your literature searches.

→ Find data about ongoing as well as concluded clinical trials

→ Why WHO ICTRP? This database aggregates all national clinical trial databases worldwide, including clinicaltrials.gov. For more information, visit WHO ICTRP

→ For now, clinical trial records will be sorted by published date. We will work on changing this to last updated date in the future.

⚠️ Beta feature: This feature is still in early development and may evolve as we refine it. Your feedback is important to help us make it better!

📩 Improved RIS Export

→ Abstract, Evaluation status & link to the paper will now be part of your exported RIS file

→ You can find this option within the export tab inside your search