Syneos Health Releases 2024 Health Trends

Generative AI Poised to Reinvent Life Sciences, Leading to Profound Changes in Healthcare


MORRISVILLE, N.C., Dec. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Syneos Health®, a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization, today released its 2024 Health Trends – The Big Leap: The Re-Invention of Life Sciences.

This year’s Health Trends Report explores how artificial intelligence (AI), deployed with a focus on the patient experience, can lead to profound changes in the way medicines are developed and delivered.

The 10 trends set to catalyze the year ahead:

  1. AI-Rx
    Healthcare AI innovations abound; understanding patient experience is crucial.

  2.  Next-Generation Engagement: Early, Intimate & Immersive
    AI aids intimate engagement with site investigators and healthcare providers.

  3. Revolution Management: Learning and Change in the New World of Work
    AI's impact on work prompts practical, immersive learning for adaptation.

  4. Finding ‘Personal’ and ‘Rare’ in Prevalent Conditions
    Shifting from broad disease categories to networks of associated conditions.

  5. Long-Haul Research Starts Paying Off
    Decades-long research yields category-redefining treatments across the clinical landscape.

  6. Confronting AI’s Biases: Challenges and Opportunities
    Addressing healthcare AI biases to foster global unity through technology.

  7. Africa & Clinical Trial Diversity
    Boosting patient diversity and improving access to medicines in global clinical research.

  8. Grappling with R&D’s Greenhouse Effect
    Leaders adopting AI tools to measure GHG emission and align with reduction goals.

  9. Data Privacy and the “Brussels Effect”
    Global biopharma is adapting to EU's evolving standards on data privacy and AI.

  10. Oases in Biotech’s Funding Desert
    Private equity and oncology deals signal growth in biotech funding models.

2024 Health Trends Implications – Connect with Us to Learn More

  • Subject Matter Experts across Syneos Health contributed to the 2024 Health Trends Report and are available to discuss implications for the year ahead.
  • Visit trends.health to dive into the 2024 Health Trends and related tools.
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About Syneos Health
Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

We bring together a talented team of professionals, who work across more than 110 countries, with a deep understanding of patient and physician behaviors and market dynamics.

Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and apply advanced business practices to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients. 

Syneos Health supports a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that cares for colleagues, customers, patients, communities and the environment.  

To learn more about how we are Shortening the distance from lab to life®, visit syneoshealth.com.

Press/Media Contact:
Gary Gatyas
Executive Director, External Communications
+1 908 763 3428
gary.gatyas@syneoshealth.com