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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.
✨ Release Highlights
Flinn 2.5 - Smarter, Faster, More Powerful
This release brings AI-driven data extraction, expanded global safety database tracking, and improved usability to streamline your workflow.
🚀 Evaluate Faster with AI – Automatically extract PIO, device & manufacturer details, and define custom AI fields for quicker literature analysis.
📚 Smarter Literature Management – Quick upload by DOI/PMID, better AI paper recommendations
📄 Google Scholar Enrichment - Automatic deduplication and enrichment of Google Scholar inside Flinn
📊 Better Exports – Improved Excel & RIS exports, plus generate your export for a custom date range
🌏 Expanded Safety Database Activities – Monitor the China NMPA database with English search support, plus improved statistics with new filtering options.
🔍 Enhanced Usability – Workflow refinements such as a redesigned analysis template organization, upload & query building experience
Module 1: Safety database monitoring
🔎 Monitor incidents from the China NMPA database
→ Expand your safety database tracking with access to China’s medical device recall database
→ Make use of our validated translation of the metadata and search with English terms
→ To get access, reach out to our team
🌎 Translate full-text PDFs
→ Automatically translate PDFs into English for easier review
→ Currently available for customers using AEMPS (Spain) and ANSM (France)
🖌️ Redesigned statistics & filtering experience
→ Navigate safety database data by filtering with improved usability
🗂️ Group results by Manufacturer Narrative & Event Description
→ 2 new statistics options offering a 700+ different combinations available
→ Perform bulk exclusion based on Manufacture Narrative & Event descriptions
🔬See full product code definitions
→ When working with FDA product codes, the code’s description will appear when hovering over the information
🏷️ BfArM: Automatic classification of event type “Death”
→ Identify critical cases faster with AI-powered detection of death-related reports
→ Currently available for BfArM reports (other data sources in development)
Module 2: Literature
📄 Google Scholar Enrichment & Improvements
→ We translated the existing search operators on Flinn to work with Google Scholar
→ Results are being enriched with the correct Author, title, type & DOI
→ Automatically deduplicate results between Google Scholar and PubMed
→ For results existing on PubMed, the abstract will be shown directly in the detail view
✨ Automatic PIO Extraction
→ Evaluate faster by utilizing the automatic extraction of Population, Intervention and Outcome
→ Currently available for PubMed abstracts, expanding to full text soon
→ Soon available for all Google Scholar and uploaded documents
⚠️ Beta feature: This feature is still in early development and will evolve as we refine it.
✨ Automatic Extraction of Device & Manufacture
→ Automatically detect device and manufacturer details from literature
→ Highlight information directly in the full text to see the context
→ Currently available for PubMed open access results
⚠️ Beta feature: This feature is still in early development and will evolve as we refine it.
✨ Custom AI Extraction Fields
→ Define your own AI-driven extraction criteria to tailor data extraction to your needs
→ Learn more with the AI custom extraction guidance page
⚠️ Beta feature: This feature is still in early development and will evolve as we refine it.
🆙 Quick upload by reference
→ Quickly add papers to a search as a non-systematic addition
→ Use the DOI, PMID or ICTRP to upload the results to your search
→ Results will automatically be marked as relevant
→ Currently available for PubMed and Clinical Trial records
📚 Find additional relevant papers
→ Rely on an improved AI snowballing feature to ensure you never miss a result outside your query results
→ All results returned are now filtered for your specific search date frame
→ The AI learning capabilities have been enhanced to consider all your screening decision
📊 Filter result lists by evaluation status
→ Group results based on your evaluation
→ Available for both Screening & Full text evaluation
💾 Improved Excel & RIS export
→ Find an improved Excel export that reflects the two-step evaluation workflow
→ Integrate Flinn into your writing workflow more efficiently
→ RIS exports will not contain any excluded or not-evaluated reports
📆 Custom date frame export
→ Gain more control over your exports by selecting a custom date frame before the download
→ Applies to both RIS & Excel exports
Global Improvements
🗂️ Organize analysis templates in settings
→ Manage your saved analysis templates more effectively
→ Change the order of the template
🎨 Usability improvements & bug fixes
→ Adjusted the interface for an improved workflow
→ Addressed issues related to the query and performance