Katie Adams is a senior reporter for MedCity News, where she covers providers and healthcare technology. With a strong focus on healthcare administration, patient care, and digital health, Katie explores the intersection of medicine and technology, as well as broader themes in public health and wellness. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Becker's Healthcare, The Boston Globe, and Fast Company.
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Katie Adams' coverage primarily focuses on the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry, with a strong emphasis on private sector announcements and press releases. She often cites data to support her articles. If you are pitching to Katie, consider providing well-supported statistics or insider information regarding recent hires, layoffs, innovations in healthcare technology, challenges facing medical facilities such as operating margins growth or patient trust issues.
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By: Katie Adams
Cushla and Clirinx, two Irish startups, are merging to give rare disease patients one continuous health and research record. The deal will pair Cushla's patient-controlled EHR with Clirinx's unique patient ID system so data no longer gets lost between doctors, hospitals and clinical trials.
By: Katie Adams
Selio Medical developed an FDA-cleared hydrogel device that seals CT-guided lung biopsy punctures before they can cause pneumothorax — a collapsed lung complication that affects up to a third of the 800,000+ such biopsies performed annually in the U.S.
A roundup of the seven most notable hospital mergers and acquisitions announced or completed this summer, including Prisma Health's acquisition of Erlanger Health and Sanford Health's purchase of North Memorial Health
A roundup of the seven most notable hospital mergers and acquisitions announced or completed this summer, including Prisma Health’s acquisition of Erlanger Health and Sanford Health’s purchase of North Memorial Health.
The House VA Committee voted 19-0 to subpoena Oracle Health executives Larry Ellison and Mike Sicilia after learning the VA's EHR contract ballooned from $10 billion to $27 billion — despite Oracle's promise to Congress that it would absorb any costs beyond the original cap.
LEP Biomedical is developing a dissolvable implant that replaces weeks of self-administered eye drops after glaucoma surgery, aiming to fix the compliance problems that drive surgical failure rates as high as 40%.
Michelle Watson, Lifepoint Health's chief nurse executive, believes ambient listening and AI-powered patient prioritization are helping nurses reclaim time on tasks that don't require clinical judgment. The goal is to free nurses up for the work that actually requires their expertise.
By: Katie Adams
Imprivata CEO Fran Rosch said AI agents should be treated similarly to the way hospitals treat a new contract nurse — vetted, monitored and then cut off as soon as the job is done.
Nutromics earned FDA breakthrough device designation for its wearable patch that tracks vancomycin levels in real time. The device aims to replace the periodic blood draws currently used to dose the tricky-to-manage antibiotic.
Inspiren, a company selling an AI-powered senior living platform, raised $70 million in Series C funding led by NewView Capital. The platform uses ambient sensors and computer vision to predict falls before they happen.
