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Title page: A Vendor Release Can Reopen the Life Sciences Validation Question — A Quality Executive Decision on Changed AI Delivery. Phil Hatch, Akholi, October 23, 2026.

AAO-091 / Regulation and Compliance

A Vendor Release Can Reopen the Life Sciences Validation Question

Life-sciences executives should require a documented impact assessment when a supplier changes an AI-supported regulated workflow. Prior validation supports the tested use and configuration; it should not be presumed to cover every later model, tool, process, or human-review change.

Buy-side Boards and Executives
Life Sciences · Other Regulated Industries · 4 pages
Title page: Keep the Pharmacovigilance Obligation Visible Across AI Suppliers — A Life Sciences Board Decision on the Safety Reporting Chain. Phil Hatch, Akholi, October 23, 2026.

AAO-088 / Regulation and Compliance

Keep the Pharmacovigilance Obligation Visible Across AI Suppliers

Life-sciences boards should require a clear operating chain from receipt of potential safety information to qualified assessment, required reporting, and reconciliation. AI-enabled outsourcing should not obscure awareness, case ownership, deadlines, or the human work needed to meet the safety obligation.

Buy-side Boards and Executives
Life Sciences · Other Regulated Industries · 5 pages
Title page: CRO AI Work Needs Traceable Human Corrections — A Clinical Outsourcing Management Method for Data Integrity. Phil Hatch, Akholi, October 23, 2026.

AAO-077 / Assurance and Audit

CRO AI Work Needs Traceable Human Corrections

Clinical outsourcing managers should make human corrections to AI-supported work attributable, justified, and linked to the original record. Quality review should improve the evidence while preserving the history needed to assess trial reliability.

Buy-side Delivery and Vendor Managers
Life Sciences · Other Regulated Industries · 4 pages
Title page: Drug Sponsors Remain Responsible for AI Generated Evidence — A Sponsor Board Decision on Outsourced Clinical Work. Phil Hatch, Akholi, October 23, 2026.

AAO-076 / Regulation and Compliance

Drug Sponsors Remain Responsible for AI Generated Evidence

Drug sponsors should retain the ability to substantiate evidence produced through AI-enabled suppliers. Outsourcing trial activities does not transfer the sponsor’s ultimate responsibility for participant protection and reliable trial data under the applicable clinical-trial framework.

Buy-side Boards and Executives
Life Sciences · Other Regulated Industries · 4 pages
Title page: Keep Adverse Event Case Clocks Visible in AI-Enabled Outsourcing — A Joint Pharmacovigilance Timing Method. Phil Hatch, Akholi, October 23, 2026.

AAO-037 / Delivery and Operations

Keep Adverse Event Case Clocks Visible in AI-Enabled Outsourcing

Pharmacovigilance managers should preserve the relevant initial receipt and awareness evidence across every supplier handoff. An internal transfer or agent-processing event must not silently replace the event that starts the applicable safety-reporting clock.

Buy-side Delivery and Vendor Managers
Life Sciences · Other Regulated Industries · 5 pages

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