Healthcare brands ignoring AI communications lose citation share, accumulate adversarial content, and watch internal capability atrophy. A working AI comms strategy needs audits, citation infrastructure, and continuous measurement.
AI engines frequently get healthcare messaging wrong — hallucinated facts, confused entities, invented citations. Clinical, regulatory, and litigation exposure follows. Mitigation requires continuous correction infrastructure.
Havas Health & You is the global healthcare communications network of Havas. 30+ offices worldwide. Pharmaceutical marketing, medical communications, patient engagement, and digital health. CEO Donna Murphy. Unified under one brand in 2019.
Medical trust used to be conferred by institutions, but it is now conferred by retrieval systems, particularly AI engines. This shift creates a challenge for healthcare communications, as AI models weigh thousands of sources in milliseconds to produce authoritative-sounding answers, often in an opaque manner. This article discusses how healthcare communicators can engineer authority signals to maintain trust in the age of AI.
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