Case Study: Illuminated Research cuts abbreviation-check time from hours to minutes with Litera Microsystems' DocXtools for Life Sciences

Consulting Firm Takes Abbreviation Checking from Hours to Minutes with Docxtools™ for Life Sciences

Illuminated Research, a consulting and medical writing firm that prepares regulatory submission documents, needed to eliminate time‑consuming, manual quality‑control tasks—particularly inconsistent abbreviation checking—that were costing time and revenue. Litera Microsystems approached the firm with DocXtools for Life Sciences (including its abbreviations module) to address inconsistencies in abbreviations, spacing, language and punctuation across a variety of style guides.

Litera Microsystems implemented DocXtools for Life Sciences to automate abbreviation insertion and checking, and the firm saw review times fall from hours to minutes; repetitive manual checks were eliminated, staff were freed to take on more projects, and turnaround, document quality, client satisfaction and project profitability all improved.

Illuminated Research

Cullen Vogelson

President