PUBLICATION PLANNING & REAL-TIME MANUSCRIPT COLLABORATION

Streamline manuscript creation with dynamic, real-time collaboration capabilities for impactful presubmissions and publications.

ExtendMed's Health Expert Connect™ allows investigators to see others’ contributions, submit asynchronous feedback, and engage in cost-effective virtual steering committee meetings—all within a single, secure platform.

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Need a secure solution to efficiently manage expert collaboration?

Arranging for busy experts from around the globe to collaborate on a manuscript is no simple task.

Without a better solution, managers are faced with emailing a secure file to each participant then manually combining each set of edits to meet security requirements.

The result is an enormously time-consuming manuscript development process prone to featuring the most outspoken voices over others.

Common publication planning challenges:

  • Bringing top international experts 
    together synchronously
  • Meeting pharma company security standards
  • Inefficiency in merging editorial feedback
  • Lack of equal participation from investigators
  • Logistical difficulties in managing and responding to asynchronous feedback

ExtendMed lets steering committee members submit feedback on their own time while saving medical affairs teams time and money.

We partner with pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare communications companies to transition teams to modern, virtual steering committees. Our platform, Health Expert Connect™, enables teams to virtually collaborate on manuscripts both synchronously and asynchronously in a format that encourages all to contribute without wasting time manually compiling feedback or aligning disparate schedules.

Graduate from emails and Word documents by sharing a single manuscript in a secure, central location, enabling investigators to engage in global, asynchronous collaboration that updates in real time—eliminating the need to manually compile feedback and arrange costly in-person meetings.

We don’t just build technology solutions—we have years of experience working with pharmaceutical industry partners to provide recommendations that lower costs and improve efficiencies across your engagement programs. Partner with us when you’re ready to take thought leader engagement to the next level.

Key benefits and differentiators:
publication planning

Synchronous and asynchronous engagements

ExtendMed differentiates itself from other platforms by supporting both synchronous and asynchronous interactions. Enable real-time collaboration and editing of manuscripts among a steering committee of experts.

Collaborate internally

Get a centralized platform for collaboration that streamlines processes like consolidating comments and other feedback.

Version control

Keep a full revision history and track of edits made by different collaborators.

Security and privacy

Get pharma-friendly security and privacy standards, unlike tools like Google Docs.

Save time

Allow collaborators to work simultaneously on the same document in real time.

Notifications and control

Get notifications when changes are made and control changes through acceptance/rejection by the document owner.

All the tools and support you need to facilitate efficient, successful publication planning—and more.

Document Collaboration

Make asynchronous edits, updated in real-time

Enable investigators to see others’ feedback for easier collaboration. Names, dates, and timestamps allow you to manage contributions and view document versions.

Engage synchronously via virtual meetings

Health Expert Connect™ has built-in virtual meeting software that allows you to regularly check in with investigators and discuss edits without the expenses associated with traditional steering committees.
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email communication

Keep investigators on schedule with email notifications

Send primary investigators invitations to participate, get messages when changes have been made, send weekly reminders, and allow steering committee members to invite each other to respond to in-line comments.

Directly comment on manuscripts & see collaborator feedback

Inline commenting features enable investigators to leave feedback and questions directly on the relevant paragraphs of the manuscript, facilitating discussion around specific sections. An activity feed provides visibility into collaborators' work by tracking who is currently editing the document and when edits were made, helping ensure all contributors remain up-to-date.
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document sharing

Share documents during virtual meetings

Virtual meetings can be conducted through the platform using screen sharing capabilities, allowing collaborators to visually review and discuss the manuscript in real-time as well as stay on track with publication timelines and priorities.

Value-added engagement capabilities and services

In addition to helping you move to a virtual steering committee model, we deliver a variety of logistical and knowledge-based value-adds.

For example, we can record, transcribe, and apply AI in analyzing output from individual meetings and across them. This helps teams save time with simple tasks like notetaking and perform more advanced knowledge-gathering, such as revealing common themes across multiple discussions that could directly inform product marketing and positioning.

Talk to us to learn how teams like yours use these analysis capabilities in creative and interesting ways to improve their workflows and engagement output.

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Achieve seamless collaboration among investigators.

ExtendMed enhances collaboration among researchers and committee members, ensuring every participant's voice is heard. This goal focuses on the ease of exchanging ideas and feedback, central to developing impactful manuscripts and research findings.

Reduce time developing and editing manuscripts.

ExtendMed enables quicker development of manuscripts by enabling real-time editing and feedback. This efficiency not only speeds up the publication process but also ensures manuscripts are well-aligned with submission requirements.

Centralize document management.

ExtendMed provides a centralized feature for document management, allowing investigators to collaborate effectively on documents. Streamline the consolidation of edits and changes from multiple committee members, overcoming the challenges of email-based document sharing and editing.

Meet all security and privacy standards.

The platform addresses the need for a secure document management solution that meets the stringent security and privacy standards of pharmaceutical companies, differentiating it from commonly used document management systems which may not be approved for use within these organizations due to IT security concerns.

See our platform in action.

See how our Health Expert Connect™ platform simplifies and strengthens your expert engagement and medical education workflow.

 
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It's a fantastic platform to learn. The best part about participating, being an academic rheumatologist, I always want to hear what my colleagues in community practice are doing. What are their challenges, and how do they circumvent them? It has informed my daily practice."

Associate Professor of Medicine, Academic Clinician
Health Expert Connect™ advisor
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I enjoy reading and giving comments to the bright contributions from my peers. I'm not sure that there's any forum worldwide with this many practitioners that have a vested interest in the disease state. Everything that is put out there is worth a lot."

Rheumatologist, Immunologist​
Health Expert Connect™ advisor
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Being part of this community was great for me. I work in a very small practice, so talking to other nurses in my same shoes and learning how they handle different situations was awesome. I picked up great ideas that make such a change in patients' lives."

Infusion Nurse
Health Expert Connect™ advisor
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Let's work together to:

Facilitate productive, cost-effective, and efficient online publication planning on our secure platform.
Conduct virtual check-in meetings to manage investigator’s progress and ensure the manuscript is aligned with the requirements of the submission.
Track participant engagement in each of your activities through a simple reporting dashboard.
How to get started with ExtendMed

Achieving better expert interactions is as easy as:

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Step 1

Schedule a call with our team. We’ll discuss your goals, pain points and how our prebuilt and fully customizable platform can support your business needs.

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Step 2

Get a personalized demo of our platform and our white glove services. If we’re a fit, we’ll work closely with your team to craft and deliver successful programs.

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Save time planning, organizing and facilitating productive interactions—harvest deeper insights from experts and quickly deliver useful information and actionable updates to stakeholders.

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Engagement beyond steering committees

Expanded platform use cases:
Speaker program management
Clinical trial site training, communications and data collection
Congress and publication planning
Market access strategy
Patient advocacy
Market testing
Mobile engagement in symposia and poster sessions

How long are you going to wait for an easier publication planning process?

Let’s talk about how we can help you streamline publication planning with fewer logistical headaches.

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Learn how one pharmaceutical company saved 200 hours by using ExtendMed’s platform for its steering committee—Case Study: Multinational Steering Committee.

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