Ivan Lim, partner, Kingsley Gate, assesses the impact AI could have on regulatory and medical affairs professionals within the life sciences sector.
Key insights:
- AI is impacting junior and middle-level roles, particularly those that include the management of trial data, where it is increasingly being used to reduce repetitive tasks.
- The pool of talent of medical affairs professionals is smaller and individuals with the relevant expertise are in high demand irrespective of their familiarity with AI.
- Driven analytics, data tools and their implications for healthcare will become an increasingly important part of the CMO role.
Is any job safe from the impact of artificial intelligence? According to a study on the impact of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) on the job market by HEC Lausanne, the business school at the University of Lausanne and EPFL's Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in Switzerland, even specialist roles such as medical appliance technicians, neurodiagnostic technologists and medical equipment specialists run the risk of being impacted fairly significantly by AI-based automation.