Fractional Healthcare Media Strategy

Your HCP media strategy shouldn't be an afterthought.

Cadence Health Media provides fractional media strategy leadership to pharma, health tech, and biotech companies ready to reach healthcare professionals at scale.

15+
Years in Healthcare Media
5
Agency Tenures
HCP + HCC
Omnichannel Expertise
All Major
Therapeutic Specialties
The Problem

Most health tech companies get marketing help.
Almost none get media strategy.

You've hired agencies. You've built content calendars. But when it comes to actually reaching HCPs through paid media, you're either overspending, undertargeting, or flying blind.

Media Spend Without Strategy

You're investing in HCP media but can't quantify what's driving engagement versus what's waste. Budget allocation is based on habit, not data.

No Senior Media Leadership

Your team knows content and brand. But nobody in-house has planned a multi-million dollar HCP media buy across endemic, programmatic, and point-of-care channels.

Agency Dependency Without Oversight

Your agency runs your media, but you don't have anyone in-house who can evaluate if they're doing it well. You're trusting the scorekeeper to call the game.

Services

Flexible engagement models built for your stage.

Whether you need a strategic audit or ongoing media leadership, every engagement is structured to deliver measurable impact.

Entry Point

Healthcare Media Audit

Project-based engagement
  • Full review of current media spend, channel mix, and HCP targeting
  • Competitive media landscape analysis
  • Prioritized roadmap with channel-level recommendations
  • Budget reallocation framework
  • Delivered in 2-3 weeks
Most Popular

Fractional Media Strategist

Monthly retainer
  • Weekly strategy sessions with your leadership team
  • HCP omnichannel media planning and optimization
  • Agency and vendor management and evaluation
  • Campaign architecture and audience strategy
  • KPI framework and performance reporting
  • 20-30 hours/month of dedicated leadership
Full Integration

Embedded Media Leadership

Monthly retainer
  • Full ownership of your healthcare media strategy
  • Integrated into your executive leadership rhythm
  • Media investment allocation and P&L oversight
  • Team mentorship and capability building
  • Board and investor-ready reporting
  • 30-40+ hours/month
Expertise

Deep specialization where it matters most.

Not general marketing strategy. Specific, technical healthcare media expertise built over 15 years on the agency side.

HCP Omnichannel Media Strategy
HCC / DTC Health Media
Programmatic Health (NPI Targeting)
Endemic & Non-Endemic Planning
Point-of-Care Media
Media Investment Optimization
Agency Evaluation & Selection
MLR / Compliance-Aware Strategy
Omnichannel Sequencing & Triggers
Campaign Measurement & Attribution
Vendor & Partner Management
Budget Allocation Frameworks
About

Built on 15 years inside healthcare media.

5
Agency Tenures
15+
Years Experience

Cadence Health Media was founded by Michelle Humes, a healthcare media strategist with over 15 years of experience leading HCP and HCC media strategy at top-tier agencies including Initiative (IPG), Solve(d), Underscore Marketing, and independent pharma specialists.

Michelle has planned and optimized omnichannel media strategies for brands across oncology, endocrinology, immunology, and other complex therapeutic areas. Her work spans programmatic health media, endemic and non-endemic planning, point-of-care, and integrated HCP engagement.

She founded Cadence to solve a problem she saw repeatedly: health tech and pharma companies investing heavily in media with no senior strategist ensuring those dollars drive real engagement. Cadence brings the rigor of a top agency media team to companies that need strategic leadership without the full-time overhead.

Initiative / IPG Solve(d) Underscore Marketing Oncology HCP Media Penn State B.S. Marketing
Get Started

Let's talk about your
HCP media strategy.

A 30-minute discovery call to understand your media challenges, evaluate fit, and outline what working together could look like. No pitch decks. No pressure.

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