Adverse Drug Reaction Report Anonymisation with anonym.plus

Healthcare Solution · Pharmacy & Life Sciences · MHRA Yellow Card / ICH E2B(R3)

ADR anonymisation is the removal of patient and reporter IDs from a reaction write-up. It supports the MHRA Yellow Card scheme and ICH E2B(R3). anonym.plus runs on your device and keeps the suspected medicine and the reaction intact.

When this applies

A reaction write-up holds the person, the one who reported it, and contact lines. To pool it for signal work, you clear the IDs but keep the medicine and event.

How anonym.plus handles it

1. Load the write-up into anonym.plus on your device.
2. It finds the named people in the free text.
3. Dates, ages, and contacts get flagged across the entry.
4. Confirm the flags; the suspected medicine stays as non-personal data.
5. Swap the IDs with steady labels for pooled work.
6. Save the clean file on your machine with no upload.

What you need to provide

• The write-up (DOCX, PDF, TXT, or export).
• Replace with a steady label map for pooled signals.
• Optional banding for the year-of-birth field.

Patient data entity types detected

Compliance achieved

• Supports MHRA Yellow Card scheme and ICH E2B(R3) reporting.
• Keeps the suspected medicine, since it is not patient data.
• On-device AES-256-GCM guards the working files.

Limitations & cautions

Exact age can identify in older people, so band it where your study allows. The suspected medicine stays, as it holds the signal. A rare event plus a small site can still narrow identity even after direct IDs are removed.