AI for Medical Affairs: From Medical Leadership to MSLs
AI in Medical Affairs is still more dream than reality for most teams. Scott Thompson and Alucio CTO Eric Chen walk through two concrete use cases -- content preparation and insight generation -- that teams can act on now.
Most Medical Affairs teams are still waiting on a large-scale AI deployment that keeps getting bigger, slower, and further away. In this webinar, Acceleration Point CEO Scott Thompson and Eric Chen, CTO of Alucio, skip the vision and go straight to practice -- walking through two live tool demonstrations that show exactly how AI is being used in the field today to improve content selection and insight generation.
What You'll Learn
- How AI helps MSLs build compliant, tailored presentations -- fast. See a live demo of how AI can analyze hundreds of approved slides, review an HCP's engagement history, and generate a coherent presentation for an upcoming meeting -- without manual tagging, retraining, or re-approval.
- How to use AI to analyze free-text insights at scale. Learn how a Medical Affairs-specific AI model can surface patterns across thousands of insight records, maintain full citation transparency, and let you drill deeper through conversational follow-up -- without exporting data to a generic AI tool.
- How AI can improve insight quality at the point of submission. Discover how real-time AI feedback during insight entry can flag non-compliant language, catch administrative notes masquerading as insights, and coach MSLs toward higher-quality submissions before the data ever reaches analysis.
- How to think about AI deployment without waiting for IT. Scott and Eric walk through the most common barriers teams face -- compliance uncertainty, lack of integration, generic outputs -- and explain why starting small with purpose-built tools produces faster, more durable results than building one centralized system.
Speakers
Scott Thompson CEO, Acceleration Point Scott has spent 15 years helping Medical Excellence leaders build effective Medical Affairs organizations. He brings a practitioner's perspective to AI adoption -- focused on what field teams can realistically implement and benefit from today.
Eric Chen CTO, Alucio Eric leads technology development at Alucio, where he built Beacon -- a scientific exchange platform for Medical Affairs teams. He co-authored research with the MSL Society on AI adoption across field medical organizations and brings deep expertise in applying large language models to compliant content workflows.
[00:00] Introduction to AI in Medical Affairs
[00:54] Meet the Experts: Scott Thompson and Eric Chen
[02:34] The AI Dream vs. Reality
[07:41] Challenges in Deploying AI
[08:13] Waiting for the “Big AI Project”
[08:28] AI is NOT Integrated
[08:52] Finding AI Tools that Prove Useful
[09:26] The Lack of AI Policies and Compliance
[12:41] Case Study: AI in Content Preparation
[29:13] Case Study: Insight Generation with AI
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