In this month’s newsletter you’ll find new insights, upcoming learning opportunities, and the latest platform updates designed to support faster, more rigorous evidence synthesis. Industry News: When AI Meets Evidence Synthesis - Accountability Still Starts With Humans At the recent HTAi webinar on the responsible use of AI in…
PICO Portal celebrates World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day today - giving special thanks to our industry partners and research community dedicated to making a positive impact across health sciences. We're also sharing few updates this month, including recent insights, upcoming learning opportunities, and the latest PICO Portal features designed to advance…
New NIH funding updates, a joint webinar with Research Solutions, and smarter Risk of Bias workflows from PICO Portal As fall approaches, the research landscape continues to evolve—especially when it comes to funding, full-text access, and the application of AI to evidence synthesis. Here’s what’s new this month from PICO…
PICO Portal simplifies the often-overlooked “silent tasks” that consume valuable time. PICO Portal simplifies and automates evidence synthesis—addressing not only the main review tasks but also the often-overlooked “silent tasks” that consume valuable time. In this video, you’ll see how PICO Portal streamlines article retrieval through AI-assisted automation. The platform…
On Saturday June 7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, PICO Portal is participating in a pre-conference workshop on applied AI in health services researchat the 2025 Annual Research Meeting hosted by AcademyHealth. Joining PICO Portal is Professor Adam Wilcox, Director of the Center for Applied Clinical Informatics at Washington University of St.…
PICO Portal is proud to be attending ISPOR 2025 in Montreal from May 13 -16 and featured in two poster presentations showcasing how AI, when designed responsibly, can meaningfully accelerate and enhance evidence synthesis. 1) Contextual Prioritization of Titles and Abstracts Using to reprioritize screening tasks daily, this research demonstrates…
New Feature: Form 2.0 for Enhanced Risk of Bias & Data Extraction We’re excited to announce the release of Form 2.0 on PICO Portal. Our newest update brings enhanced features, including PICO Portal Ask AI*, to elevate your literature review workflows, making it easier, faster, and more reliable to conduct…
PICO Portal is proud to be attending ISPOR 2025 in Montreal from May 13 -16 and featured in two poster presentations showcasing how AI, when designed responsibly, can meaningfully accelerate and enhance evidence synthesis. 1) POSTER: Contextual Prioritization of Titles and Abstracts Using to reprioritize screening tasks daily, this…
Evidence synthesis is essential—but screening thousands of citations is costly, slow, and labor-intensive. Johns Hopkins' Lisa Brown, Research Associate in the Department of Health Policy & Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, along with Dr. Karen Robinson, Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of JHU's Evidence-based Practice Center, tackled…
AI-Led Extraction Isn't Saving Researchers Time. Here’s What Happened When We Tried. Artificial intelligence is often celebrated as the ultimate time-saver for researchers. But in a recent experiment, we discovered something unexpected: when it comes to data extraction, AI can actually slow things down. At PICO Portal, we tested large…
