Convened sessions on a live question
Workshops and Round Tables for healthcare and life sciences
In-person or virtual sessions that convene clinicians, payers and executives around one live strategic question.
HealthcareMarketResearch delivers workshops and round tables for pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, diagnostics and digital health companies, as well as consultancies and investors.
Projects run from our India headquarters with a global network of 5,000+ market researchers, so you get senior attention, round-the-clock delivery and local fieldwork in every major market.
What you receive
- Participant curation
- Agenda and facilitation
- Live synthesis
- Strategic recommendations deck
Common use cases
- Strategy offsites
- Market access round tables
- Medical affairs workshops
- Innovation sprints
At a glance
Workshops and Round Tables: the short version
Turnaround, typical scope, audiences, coverage and deliverables for workshops and round tables — the answer-first version, before you write a brief.
- Turnaround
- Scoping in 24–48 hours; access and scheduling typically 5–10 business days
- Typical scope
- 8–25 invited participants
- Who we reach
- Clinicians and prescribers · Nursing and allied health · Payers and market access · Hospital and procurement
- Coverage and languages
- In person across Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and 20+ Indian cities; English, Hindi and major regional languages
- What you receive
- Participant curation · Agenda and facilitation · Live synthesis · Strategic recommendations deck
- How it runs
- In person, run by our own India field teams and coordinated from Pune
This is an in-person service, delivered in India only. Scopes are typical, not fixed packages — every project is sized to your brief. Studies follow EphMRA, BHBIA and Insights Association guidance, with GDPR, HIPAA and DPDP-aligned handling of participant data.
How a project runs
Five steps from brief to readout
Every workshops and round tables project follows the same path, with a named HMR lead accountable at each step.
- 01
Brief and feasibility
We agree the question, the sites or participants that can answer it, and what access is realistically obtainable. You get a written scope and a feasibility read first.
24–48 hours
- 02
Design the session
The agenda or observation framework, the roles that have to be in the room, and the evidence to capture, so every session returns comparable material.
Research design lead
- 03
Recruit, permissions and scheduling
Our India teams recruit the participants and secure any site or venue permissions, handle consent and recording rules, and build a schedule that holds.
India field team
- 04
In person, on the day
A senior researcher is there throughout, documenting what actually happens rather than what gets reported afterwards.
Senior researcher present
- 05
Synthesis and readout
Findings written up against your question, with the photographs, quotes and workflow detail that support each conclusion.
5–10 business days
Who we reach
Stakeholders we recruit for workshops and round tables
Recruited and visited in person by our own India teams, across metro and tier-2 markets.
Clinicians and prescribers
- Neurologists and psychiatrists
- Orthopaedic and spine surgeons
- Urologists and andrologists
- Gastroenterologists and hepatologists
- Pathologists and laboratory directors
Nursing and allied health
- Dietitians and diabetes educators
- Hospital pharmacists
- Home-care and palliative nurses
- Laboratory technologists
- Retail pharmacists and chemists
Payers and market access
- Health economics and outcomes leads
- Pricing and reimbursement managers
- TPA and claims heads
- Market access consultants
- Corporate and employer benefit heads
Hospital and procurement
- Diagnostic chain operations heads
- Pharmacy and formulary heads
- Chief nursing officers
- Hospital CEOs and medical superintendents
- Nursing home and clinic owners
Patients and caregivers
- Patients paying out of pocket
- Rare disease families
- Family caregivers and decision-makers
- Patients on long-term therapy
- Post-surgical recovery patients
Trade and channel
- Online pharmacy category managers
- Wholesalers and super-stockists
- Stockists and distributors
- Standalone chemists
- Retail pharmacy chain owners
Method comparison
Workshops and Round Tables compared with the alternatives
The same question can be answered several ways. This is how workshops and round tables differs from the methods clients usually weigh it against — Workshops and Round Tables is the highlighted column.
| Workshops and Round Tables | Multi-Expert Panels | AI-Moderated Calls | Qualitative Research | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | Convened to a fixed date | Panel assembled to the brief | A full wave fielded in days | Recruitment-led, then fielded |
| Typical sample | 8–25 invited participants | 3–6 specialists in one session | 100–1,000 interviews per wave | 8–40 IDIs or 4–12 focus groups |
| Depth of insight | Facilitated group reasoning | Debate, consensus and dissent | Guided depth with automated probing | The why behind the behaviour |
| Best for | Alignment between people who have to agree | A contested question settled in one room | Open-ended questions asked at volume | Reasoning, language and unmet need |
| Typical output | Live synthesis, recommendations deck | Consensus and dissent map, transcript | Coded theme dashboard, analyst summary | Journey maps, insight narrative |
| Runs in person in India |
Compliance
How we keep workshops and round tables compliant
Healthcare research carries obligations that general market research does not. These apply to every project, in every market.
Industry codes
EphMRA, BHBIA, Insights Association and ESOMAR guidance on how healthcare research is conducted.
Adverse events
Trained adverse event reporting on every healthcare interview, routed to your pharmacovigilance contact.
Data protection
GDPR, HIPAA and India's DPDP Act. Consent is captured before any recording or transcription.
Conflicts and confidentiality
Every participant is screened against your exclusion list and engaged under confidentiality terms.
Is this the right fit?
When to use workshops and round tables — and when not to
We would rather point you at the right method than sell you this one. Here is where workshops and round tables earns its place, and where something else does the job better.
Choose this when
- The decision in front of you involves strategy offsites
- A decision is weeks away and directional evidence is enough to move
- You need judgement and context, not just a number
- Being physically present in an Indian market changes what you learn
Consider something else when
- You need a contested question settled in one room — Multi-Expert Panels fits that better
- AI-Moderated Calls is the better route when you need open-ended questions asked at volume
- The question is really about reasoning, language and unmet need, which Qualitative Research covers
Alternatives
Where another method fits better
Each of these answers a different kind of question. Tell us the decision and we will recommend the right one, even when it is not this service.
Workshops and Round Tables across India
By industry
FAQs
What is workshops and round tables in healthcare market research?+
Workshops and Round Tables is one of the ways HealthcareMarketResearch connects pharma, biotech, medtech and healthcare clients with verified physicians, payers and industry experts to answer strategic questions. In-person or virtual sessions that convene clinicians, payers and executives around one live strategic question.
How quickly can workshops and round tables start?+
Most projects start within 24–48 hours of a confirmed brief, drawing on our 5,000+ network. Scoping in 24–48 hours; access and scheduling typically 5–10 business days.
Where do you offer workshops and round tables?+
In India, where our in-person field teams are based — across Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and 20+ Indian cities.
What is a typical workshops and round tables scope?+
8–25 invited participants. You receive: Participant curation, Agenda and facilitation, Live synthesis, Strategic recommendations deck. Everything is sized to the brief rather than sold as a fixed package.
Who can you reach for workshops and round tables?+
Clinicians and prescribers, Nursing and allied health, Payers and market access, Hospital and procurement, Patients and caregivers, Trade and channel. Each group is screened on specialty, setting and experience before anyone joins a study.
What is the difference between workshops and round tables and multi-expert panels?+
Workshops and Round Tables is best for alignment between people who have to agree, with 8–25 invited participants and facilitated group reasoning. Multi-Expert Panels is best for a contested question settled in one room. If both apply, the two are often run in sequence.
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