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Cutting Edge Information's report Medical Affairs: Delivering Strategic Value addresses the major trends of the medical affairs landscape. It benchmarks industry-leading medical affairs organizations and includes detailed best practices that these departments have implemented to remain compliant and strategic recommendations to improve their functions by comparing their spending, staffing, global structures, and strategies to those of top pharmaceutical companies.
Although the medical affairs function has long been considered vital, recent years have seen tremendous change in the department's strategic position. Pressure to remain compliant and increasing globalization have had a profound impact on companies' medical affairs structures, budgets and strategies. This transition is exciting - it creates a motivator for dynamic growth opportunities that underscore medical affairs' importance to pharma companies' strategies.
At the same time, such growth spurs new challenges. Medical affairs teams often struggle to strike a balance between serving both internal and external customers, as well as being faithful to clinical truths and aligning with commercial goals.
The report makes its case with metrics and techniques for managing medical affairs in the following key areas:
Structure, Communication and Globalization
Learn how and why pharmaceutical companies are restructuring their medical affairs departments. Explore department best practices for achieving optimal communication and coordination. Discover how medical affairs is growing globally and the strategies that companies employ to deal with the rapid expansion of medical affairs teams' responsibilities.
Budget, Staffing and Success Measurements
Examine top companies' medical affairs budgets and staffing by activity. Discover what performance measures medical affairs departments use to gauge their success.
Strategy, Activities and Compliance
Explore medical affairs' involvement in strategy-setting, as well as some of the major activities for which the function is responsible. Understand how regulatory compliance requirements have affected medical affairs teams.
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