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Verticals / Healthtech & Digital Health

Interim CMO for Healthtech & Digital Health Scale-ups

Compliant marketing leadership under EU MDR, HIPAA, and NHS-D frameworks. Engagements that pass internal regulatory review on day one. From €10,000 to €25,000 per month.

By Joris van Huët · Updated 2026-06-15

The pattern

"European MDR-regulated marketing campaigns now require an average of 11 review cycles before approval, up from 4 in 2019, and 38% of digital health startups report regulatory review as their #1 go-to-market bottleneck." — Rock Health Digital Health 2024 Funding Report

Pattern 1

MDR review cycles tripled — your creative cadence cannot survive without a process redesign.

Pattern 2

Clinician acquisition and patient acquisition need different stacks. You are running one for both.

Pattern 3

Telehealth retention cliffed post-COVID. The board wants the explanation by next quarter.

Pattern 4

KOL programs stopped scaling. You need conference-led growth and earned media, not paid social.

What the engagement looks like

KPIs we manage
  • Qualified clinician / patient leads
  • Time-to-trial
  • Regulatory-approved campaign cycle time
  • Clinical NPS by persona
  • Conference-driven pipeline
  • Retention by clinical pathway
Stack we operate
  • Veeva CRM
  • Salesforce Health Cloud
  • HubSpot
  • Doximity Ads
  • MedShr
  • GoodRx Ads
Channels we manage
  • Clinician-targeted content
  • Regulated paid (Doximity / MedShr)
  • KOL programs
  • Conference marketing
  • Payor ABM

Recommended tier for Healthtech & Digital Health

Engagements at €17,500–€25,000/month — Team coaching through full interim CMO. Move up or down the ladder as scope changes during the mandate. The full ladder is on the homepage pricing slider.

Verifiable analogue case: Procter & Gamble — where I smoke-tested 128 product variations in 45 days, the same hypothesis-validation discipline that regulated health markets require. See the interactive CV for the verified track record.

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Frequently asked

Are you familiar with EU MDR Article 7 and FDA Title 21 CFR 202?

Yes. Engagements include a documented regulatory-and-marketing protocol agreed with your medical, legal, and compliance officers in the first two weeks. We design the marketing operating model around those constraints, not against them.

Do you work with medtech hardware, software, or both?

Both, though the most efficient engagements are software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD) and platform plays. Hardware-only medtech requires a longer regulatory cycle and is usually a 9-month-plus mandate.

How do you measure ROI in a regulated environment?

Pipeline-stage conversion (clinician → trial → adoption) for B2B; conditioned LTV by clinical pathway for B2C. We do not measure ROI on creative cycles because the regulatory cost dwarfs the media cost.

Can you sign under HIPAA-aware engagement terms?

Yes. US healthtech engagements include a BAA template; EU engagements include a DPA aligned with GDPR Article 28.

Ready to discuss your Healthtech & Digital Health mandate?

Five-minute intake, response within 48 hours. If we are a fit you have a written proposal within five business days. If not, I will say so and recommend an alternative.

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