Healthcare explainer videos and medical animation videos simplify complex medical topics across pharma, medical devices, and hospitals. This guide covers five high-impact use cases — patient education, medical device animation, surgical/procedural demos, internal training, and mechanism-of-action (MOA) — then breaks down 26 of the best medical explainer video examples, including B2W's own work for Edwards Lifesciences, OrthAlign, Santen, Fibrogen, and more.
At Broadcast2World, we've spent 15+ years producing these videos for 50+ healthcare brands — including animated training videos for healthcare staff, covering everything from clinical onboarding to compliance walkthroughs — alongside the patient-facing and marketing examples below.
The healthcare industry is a $12 trillion market. Yes, you read that right—it’s “trillion” with a “T.” This is what makes it one of the most lucrative industries for B2Bs to operate in.
However, as much as it’s lucrative, it’s also highly competitive, where gaining the trust of healthcare institutions and medical professionals is a constant uphill battle.
This got me thinking: How do some healthcare brands become favorite choices while others are left in the wind?
In this blog, I’ll take a closer look at how healthcare B2Bs position their authority using animated healthcare explainer videos. We’ll explore what they are, why they’re important, and examine 26 powerful examples of medical animated videos.
Healthcare animation videos are powerful tools across the medical industry—whether you're educating patients, promoting devices, or training professionals. Here are some high-impact use cases:
Explaining treatments or conditions to patients can be overwhelming. Medical animation videos simplify complex topics, using visual metaphors and clear narration to improve understanding and reduce anxiety. Patient animation content also boosts compliance and decision-making.
Much like a nursing concept map template helps organize complex medical information visually, animated explainer videos are a great educational medium for educating patients and medical professionals about your products and services.
Build trust and credibility in the process and make it easier to communicate value propositions as well.
Launching a new product? A medical device animation demonstrates your product’s functionality with clarity and appeal. These animations make product features tangible, especially for sales presentations, websites, and investor decks.
In fact, a study by Gartner found that personalized product demo videos are among the most preferred ways to influence purchase decisions.
Personalized product demonstrations are highly preferred in purchase decisions (Source: Gartner)
For context, here's a strong external example — a medical device animation from Thermo Fisher covering the ID Nimbus Presto system, a collaboration with Hamilton for automated forensic sample extraction and purification.
Here's how we've done this ourselves. For Edwards Lifesciences, we built a 3D medical device animation demonstrating their fluid management system in real-time critical-care scenarios — anatomical accuracy, product modeling, and fluid simulation combined into clear medical device visualization. For OrthAlign, we introduced their Lantern handheld surgical navigation device through a 2.5D animation explaining setup, integration, and surgical accuracy.
Because device-launch content often supports regulated claims, our scientific animation process builds in healthcare-specific, FDA-ready compliance review — so every frame is accurate enough for surgeons, clinicians, procurement teams, and regulators alike.
For healthcare brands, product demonstration videos are vital for convincing potential buyers of the efficacy and safety of their medical products.
Aiding in the decision-making process of medical professionals and procurement teams.
These healthcare marketing videos also help establish the brand as a credible authority that other healthcare consumers can rely on.
Hospitals, universities, and training institutes use 3D medical animation to visually walk through complex procedures, minimizing the need for cadavers or physical demos. This builds confidence among practitioners and trainees.
Our latest video marketing survey found that 96% of people find animated educational videos useful in increasing retention and understanding.
Videos are a great tool for boosting retention and understanding (Source: B2W’s Video Marketing Survey 2024)
And when you shift your focus to medical animation, this finding holds even more significance.
But in this scenario, educational videos become training videos or tutorial videos.
Such health animation videos are an amazing medium to:
These healthcare explainer videos provide step-by-step guidance to ensure thorough understanding and proper implementation.
The video below helped BD educate new medical professionals on the correct usage of urinary catheters and turn their message into an educational source that can be referred to multiple times during medical training.
B2B healthcare brands that use medical animation in their training content build a more coherent dialogue with their audience.
It can either be a discourse on a self-medication procedure for patients. Or it can be a visual guide for medical professionals on how to use their medical products and services. Either way, such videos:
You get the point.
One animated training video seen by 5,000 nurses beats a 40-page PDF seen by none — which is why Broadcast2World builds dedicated animated training videos for healthcare staff, covering clinical onboarding, compliance procedures, protocol walkthroughs, and platform adoption.
Healthcare animation helps train staff efficiently—breaking down SOPs, emergency protocols, or product handling instructions into engaging animated sequences.
See how this played out for UCI's supply-chain training (#26) and Astellas's internal data-integrity training (#17) below.
In a survey on the importance of effective communication in healthcare, Sermo found something interesting. They saw 57% of medical professionals finding delays in receiving information, the most frustrating part about healthcare communication.
Information delay is a big hurdle in healthcare communication (Source: Sermo)
As a B2B brand in healthcare, it’s easy to look at this from a corporate perspective. But I want you to look at these numbers from the eyes of a medical professional.
Delays and miscommunications can lead to a grave medical mistake that may not be overturned.
Ultimately, this puts patient care at risk, and no medical professional would want to find themselves in such a situation.
This is what makes healthcare communication one of the most important aspects of medical care.
Medical animation in the form of internal communication videos can help you out here. Here is a great example of animated video series from Grifols:
They help establish clear and scientific communications in healthcare organizations, be it among patients or employees within the B2B healthcare brand.
These can include updates on new protocols, an overview of company policies, or announcements of organizational changes.
For B2B healthcare brands, this ensures that all medical personnel are aligned with the company's goals, procedures, and values.
Leading to improved efficiency and a stronger organizational culture.
In the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, innovation happens at a molecular level—and that’s often difficult to explain through static visuals or lengthy documents. This is where medical animation becomes a game-changer.
From illustrating drug mechanisms of action (MoA) to showing complex molecule interactions, medicine animation simplifies the science and turns it into a compelling story. These medical animation videos help translate dense clinical data into visually engaging narratives that are easy for both specialists and non-specialists to grasp.
Whether you're presenting to investors, educating healthcare professionals, or launching a new therapy to the market, 3D medical animation lets you demonstrate how your product works inside the body—at the cellular or molecular level—without overwhelming your audience.
This makes scientific animation and medical animation services an essential asset for pharma marketers, medical affairs teams, and biotech startups looking to raise awareness, secure funding, or build trust with stakeholders. In an industry where accuracy and clarity are everything, healthcare animation helps you deliver both—beautifully.
Healthcare brands use explainer videos to simplify healthcare offerings while clearly communicating how they can be used in medical scenarios. The videos become a tool for building trust and establishing authority.
After going through the healthcare animation videos listed below, you'll better understand the effectiveness and charisma of these videos.
Hospitals lose millions each year due to misplaced or untracked medical supplies. UCI needed to raise awareness among staff, so our team developed a short, animated healthcare video that used humor, empathy, and storytelling — combining 2D motion graphics with light character design. It became a powerful internal training tool used in staff meetings and onboarding, helping increase awareness of supply-tracking protocols, reduce waste, and strengthen accountability across teams.
Noni by New Age wanted to educate audiences about a new supplement line. We created a motion-character-driven animated product demo combining 2D animation, kinetic typography, and lifestyle-inspired design. Results: 3.5× higher engagement vs. previous launches, 52% longer watch time, 2× more social shares, and 28% higher conversions after repurposing across YouTube ads, e-commerce, and wellness campaigns.
Walgreens wanted to educate audiences on blood sugar awareness and lifestyle management. Our team created a character-based health animation with vibrant colors, expressive motion, and friendly narration, following a relatable character on a wellness journey. It improved engagement and retention across social media and in-store displays and strengthened Walgreens' positioning as a patient-focused healthcare educator.
Edwards Lifesciences wanted to demonstrate its advanced fluid management system. Our creative team used 3D medical device animation — integrating anatomical accuracy, product modeling, and fluid simulation — to show how the system monitors and adjusts fluid levels in critical-care scenarios. The video became a cornerstone of Edwards' marketing and training ecosystem, enhancing product understanding among clinicians and sales teams and reinforcing Edwards' image as an innovator in patient-care technology.
At the height of the pandemic, UCI wanted to educate staff and the public about proper mask usage and efficacy. We designed a whiteboard animation with clean line art, fluid motion, and a conversational voiceover to show how UCI's BluMask technology provides reliable protection — balancing medical accuracy with human warmth, in close collaboration with UCI's healthcare professionals.
Santen, a global leader in ophthalmology, wanted to explain tear film instability — a key factor in dry eye disease — to both professionals and patients. Using precise, hand-drawn whiteboard animation and clear narration, we turned dense ophthalmic concepts into a visual journey that increased understanding and strengthened Santen's credibility as an empathetic, science-driven brand.
A herniated disc affects 5 to 20 adults per 1,000 every year, yet awareness is limited. Through our 3D medical animation services, we developed an explainer that illustrated what disc herniation is, its causes, and the surgical procedure to treat it — transforming complex medical detail into a story-like journey while reinforcing SpineCal's credibility as a trusted orthopedic institute.
Around 790,000 knee replacement surgeries are performed in the US every year — common, but far from simple. This 2D medical animation from Bupa paints a clear, step-by-step journey through the procedure, showing how the surgery is done and the conditions needed for success, with empathy that connects to anxious patients, curious learners, and accuracy-minded professionals alike.
Health Monitor Network wanted to tell the story of COPD from a patient's perspective. Through medical animation, we visualized the disease's progression inside the body while highlighting preventive steps — combining character animation and accurate medical visuals so patients understand symptoms without feeling overwhelmed.
Astellas wanted to communicate the importance of data integrity to non-specialist employees. We developed a story-driven explainer that depicted data as a "journey" — connecting the technical (pipelines, compliance, security) to the emotional (patient outcomes, collaboration) — blending 2D character animation with clean infographics. It became one of Astellas's most effective internal communication tools.
Fibrogen aimed to explain the science behind Roxadustat, a physiological approach to treating chronic kidney disease (CKD), to nephrologists and healthcare professionals. Our team used storytelling and whiteboard animation to educate the audience on its Mechanism of Action — keeping the scientific detail intact but simplified.
OrthAlign sought a medical device explainer to introduce Lantern — a handheld surgical navigation unit delivering the benefits of larger systems. Using 2.5D animation, contrasting backgrounds, and color-coded text, the video explains how Lantern is used, how it integrates and scales, and how it improves alignment — turning a complex offering into confidence.
Inova chose a simple 2D explainer to showcase how it delivers excellent care through patient education and research. Engaging character animation plus infographics simplify a wide range of offerings — live conferences, online education, masterclasses, and expert panels — with a standout keyhole-and-key metaphor leading into the CTA.
Athena Health opened with a hard-hitting reality: the uninterrupted time doctors can give patients is shrinking under intermediary tasks. The 2D infographic animation dramatizes the problem (a ticking clock, sweating doctors) then shows how Athena's mission to "Unbreak Healthcare" gets doctors paid faster and takes busywork off their plate.
Using 3D character animation, Medhost positioned itself as the vital side character supporting doctors and hospitals — an EHR software solution that makes each task systematic, connected, and fast. High-quality character design, seamless dialogue, dynamic camera transitions, and gradient graphs keep viewers engaged.
Using a 2.5D character style, Crossover captured the "blue" feeling of managing health and a busy life, then shifted to a bright, colorful world as the solution appears — healthcare organized around people, not payments. The logo-as-button switch that turns the world colorful is a smart, memorable finish.
Deloitte's detailed mixed-media animation asks, "How can pharmaceutical companies engage with patients?" and answers it by layering live action, stop-frame, 2D animation, motion graphics, and infographics — a compelling snapshot of the modern healthcare ecosystem and a standout among pharma explainer videos.
Medable addresses the pain of building a compliant, global, interoperable health app. Using simple 2D characters and infographics — colorful cubes that combine into one bigger cube — the video shows how adaptive modules (compliance, backend, analytics, collaboration, research) come together to speed product development, including HIPAA compliance handled for you.
"Does your physician see the whole of you or just the part they're treating?" Summa Health opens on disembodied body parts on a sofa, then pivots to sum-total, coordinated care — a doctor reviewing a complete health picture, specialists collaborating — using a minimalist palette and subtle medical infographics.
Using the relatable scenario of the person with an opinion about everything, 2nd.MD draws the line at unwanted medical opinions — then shows the steps to connect with a board-certified in-network specialist, how the care team works, and the detailed post-consultation summary, all with vivid colors and minimalist characters.
Opening in colorful deep space, this video ties humanity's progress to collaboration, then dramatizes rising healthcare costs and declining employee health — a shattering platform, wasted-dollar stats — before showing how partnering with doctors, employers, and providers turns fragmented care into a unified, people-first approach.
Google relates blood cells — great collaborators keeping the body healthy — to healthcare teams that must move fast and work smart, which is why they built G Suite. Screencast animation then shows real-time chat, training scheduling, secure data management in Sheets and Drive, and collaboration on patient-facing content in Slides.
Eye Love uses high-quality 3D graphics and a witty voiceover to explain chronic dry eyes — a literal crab throwing sand to depict the "sand in your eyes" feeling, playful shapes for how symptoms are described — before diving into the structure and function of tears and the role of artificial tears. One of the best non-salesy animated healthcare commercials.
To change attitudes toward genetic testing, Color explains the concept from the basics — DNA and what it reveals about disease risk like cancer or heart disease — using bright colors, still cutouts, and moving infographics such as the DNA strand. Symbolic scenes (flowers blooming from a test tube) frame gene testing as a blessing for health.
This mixed-media animation uses a small girl and an older college-age cousin (in a 3D background) to discuss the sensitive topic of growing up with IBD. The casual banter and the boy's shape-shifting (balloon, tree, hot air balloon) make it relatable and entertaining — a warm example of B2C healthcare marketing. For how B2B differs, see our B2B vs B2C healthcare marketing guide.
Healthcare institutions hold sensitive data that's gold to cybercriminals. Google's mixed-media animation uses blaring fonts and collage-like visuals (hands opening a treasure box) to convey the threat, then enters a gradient "world of solutions," explaining how stakeholders across healthcare, tech, and government can protect these assets — closing on "Safer with Google." For more, see our healthcare video marketing strategies.
Broadcast2World (B2W) is a healthcare video production studio specializing in medical device launch animations — using 3D and 2D animation to demonstrate device functionality, mechanism of action, and clinical use for surgeons, clinicians, and patients. Recent device-launch work includes Edwards Lifesciences' fluid management system and OrthAlign's Lantern surgical navigation device.
Researchers, surgeons, pharma companies, medical device manufacturers, universities, hospitals, and nonprofits use medical animation to simplify complex topics for patients, providers, investors, and researchers — across presentations, training, websites, virtual reality, social media, and marketing materials. They're especially useful for topics that can't be easily conveyed with words or still images, like molecular processes or step-by-step procedures.
Five stand out: streamlined onboarding and training, increased engagement, improved conversion rates, enhanced SEO value (about 5% of Google searches are health-related), and scalable, consistent education and training.
Healthcare explainer videos are mostly produced with animation — commonly whiteboard and 3D. You can produce in-house (an animation video maker plus audio software for voiceover and SFX) or hire an explainer video agency to deliver faster and within budget.
They visually explain procedures, treatment plans, and how the body functions — replacing jargon with clear visuals. Patient animation bridges the doctor-patient communication gap, keeps patients engaged, and improves adherence to treatment plans, leading to better outcomes.
Start with industry expertise (anatomy, pharmacology, clinical process, regulatory standards), review a pharma/medtech/biotech portfolio, assess storytelling and creativity, check 3D and 2D technical capability, prioritize collaboration, and confirm they'll optimize the animation for campaigns. Shortlist 2–3 partners and request a free creative consultation.
Cost depends on length, animation style, level of detail, production process, and delivery time. Most of B2W's 2D animation explainer videos range between $2,400 and $4,800. As a rule of thumb, whiteboard animation is the least expensive and 3D animation is the most costly.
Broadcast2World produces animated training videos for healthcare staff — clinical onboarding, compliance procedures, protocol walkthroughs, and platform adoption — for 50+ healthcare brands over 15+ years, with healthcare-specific compliance review built into every project. See our full healthcare video production work and process.
With all the examples we saw along the way, I can say one thing with absolute certainty. Videos are going to play an even bigger role in B2B healthcare marketing. And there are some recent video marketing statistics that point to this exciting future:
So what’s the way forward from here if you’re a B2B in the healthcare industry?
You need to put more emphasis on your B2B videos and take it to the next level. And the best way to do that is through explainer video production and video animation.
I hope this article becomes your reliable guide that aids in your healthcare marketing endeavors, helping you dominate the healthcare space and increase your impact in the long run
Shrija is a content writer at Broadcast2World, where she breaks down the nuances of animation, video production, and B2B storytelling through her engaging content. with a background in English and Mass Communication, she seamlessly blends strategic thinking with audience- focused storytelling
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