A healthcare expert typically acts as an advisor or consultant to small or medium sized businesses, providing them insight, advisory services and literature help in the healthcare domain.

This requires healthcare experts, writers and consultants to possess vast experience in the healthcare industry, as well as a wide range of skills, such as healthcare writing, business development etc.

Apart from years of experience in the healthcare industry, healthcare experts typically possess a masters degree in healthcare administration or a similar field. Additional certifications, such as CMM. CPHRM and CPHIMS, amongst others.

Healthcare experts also possess skills such as medical writing, medical copywriting and technical writing. This helps them draft documents and literature of a wide variety to assist healthcare companies,

• Whitepapers and E-books to help the company build up a pipeline of potential consumers and establish domain credibility.
• Articles and promotional copy to help sell healthcare products
• Research material to act as a reference point for product development.

Whilst healthcare experts are usually hired on an advisory or consulting basis, this can prove to be an expensive acquisition, especially for smaller companies. Here’s where freelance healthcare experts can add value in more ways than one,

Freelance healthcare writers and freelance copywriters are cheaper to hire, and can provide on-demand assistance for a wide range of literature, ranging from informational articles to deep expert content assets.

Freelance healthcare consultants can provide flexible advisory services, enabling you to consult them at different points of the product development or regulatory approval journey, without the need to bring them on board throughout the process.

This helps you achieve a cost-effective and time-effective process, cutting out on redundant paperwork and expenses, effectively streamlining the entire product journey.

Healthcare experts and consultants charge a wide variety of fees, depending on the nature of consultation and their expertise level. Whilst a top level consultant might charge upwards of $200/hour for healthcare writing services etc, a safe range to assume would be somewhere between $125 to $220/hour, depending on the experience level of the expert.

Freelance healthcare experts, on the other hand, are a cost-effective option. They possess the same level of expertise and similar skills as healthcare consultants, but offer a wider range of benefits such as flexible, on-demand consulting and quicker turnaround times.

Platforms such as Kolabtree have independent healthcare experts who offer healthcare content writing services who can be hired upwards of $30/hour, all the way up to $100-$120, depending on the kind of task they’re required to take up. 

Before writing a job post, consider the following,

• The specific type expertise you need, be it a freelance healthcare writer, freelance healthcare copywriter or a general freelance healthcare consultant.
• Budgets, timeline and scope of project - Whilst freelance healthcare copywriting or technical writing might be a straightforward requirement, a product development project could require more back and forths, which can make the budget and hiring timeline more complicated.

On freelance platforms like Kolabtree, you can post a project with these details in order to receive relevant proposals for healthcare writing services, for instance. The next step is to talk to these independent healthcare writers and experts, and study their expertise.

Next, shortlist the best profiles based on compatible budgets, relevant expertise, previous experience etc. This will help you eventually narrow down on the best fit for your project.