This article summarizes insights from a 2025 MAPS Roundtable where Medical Affairs leaders discussed emerging trends in digital engagement, focusing on the rise of Digital Opinion Leaders (DOLs) and strategies for Healthcare Professional (HCP) influence mapping. The conversation highlighted how innovative approaches are reshaping disease awareness and stakeholder relationships.
Johnson & Johnson’s Medical Affairs team is transforming strategy with data-driven insights, moving beyond traditional approaches to identify key opinion leaders, improve advisory board diversity, and enhance patient journey mapping. With H1’s analytics, they are shifting from quantity to quality in engagements, advancing health equity, and leveraging AI for smarter decision-making.
In an era of data-driven medical communications, we’re missing a crucial ingredient: storytelling. New research shows our brains are wired to engage with narrative formats – making storytelling not just a ‘nice-to-have’ but a neurological necessity for effective medical education. Learn how the STORIES framework (Structure, Tailoring, Originality, Rationality, Immediacy, Emotionality, Simplicity) is revolutionizing how we communicate complex medical information to healthcare providers and patients alike. From graphic novels to VR simulations, see how narrative techniques are transforming medical education and patient engagement.
Digital Science held a roundtable discussion with Medical Affairs leaders in Madrid in May 2024 on the topic of scientific communications strategies assessment and their success measurements for multiple stakeholders.
From the choice of where to publish to the assessment of impact, every decision holds weight in medical research publication. And yet, the metrics that have been traditionally used to guide these decisions offer only a partial view. The result: a hit-or-miss situation when it comes to reaching the target audience—healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patients. Can a data-driven approach that incorporates both traditional and the newer alternative metrics hold the key to improved publication planning, impact and thereby better patient outcomes?
Omnichannel communication is the strategy of integrating various communication channels, both digital and non-digital, and joining multiple communication touchpoints to provide a seamless, personalized experience, and unified identity across all channels, devices, and touchpoints: the customer (namely HCPs and patients), rather than the product, is at the center.
With a multibillion dollar investment from Microsoft and already 4 authorship credits on PubMed, ChatGPT is poised to disrupt Medical Affairs.
This webinar highlights the continued importance of omnichannel engagement for healthcare practitioners and learners and the need to equip our internal teams appropriately.
In this podcast, we speak with presenters of the MAPS 2022 Global Annual Meeting session, “Developing and Executing and Integrated Medical Communications Strategy and Plan.”
“Data doesn’t exist until it is published.” Here, MAPS speaks with MedComm FAWG co-leads about innovations and future directions for Medical Communications within Medical Affairs.