Could artificial intelligence replace pharma reps?

Could artificial intelligence replace pharma reps?

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Pharmaforum
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AI is proving to be hugely influential in our daily lives, with many companies choosing to automate their customer-facing operations as much as possible.

While the motivation for this is often to cut costs, a roundtable discussion at the Veeva summit heard that big pharma companies are increasingly looking towards this technology as a way of interacting with doctors.