Cathy Corathers

Corathers Health Consulting utilizes luminaries and unique specialty consultants through a team approach for most of their highly customized projects. Such distinguished consultation supplies an unparalleled differentiating factor over other consulting companies and is of critical value when dealing with the fast-paced and complex industry of advancing technologies including such areas as medical device market research, surgical product market entry studies, surgical biologics/orthobiologics market research, physician demand studies, hospital telemedicine/healthcare robotic solutions and physician advisory board alternatives.

Cathy Corathers: Bio Briefing

Cathy Corathers provides continuity and the primary leadership for the firm. In addition to her services, Ms. Corathers is the founder and Chief Officer of Corathers Health Consulting, a firm with 20-plus years of experience in healthcare.

She excels in surgical and medical device market research, including physician perception studies for global corporations. She has interviewed thousands of healthcare executives, industry leaders and physicians on a variety of topics and has extensive background in projects relating to business expansion and product positioning.

Corathers guides members of the healthcare industry to efficiency and growth through a priorities-based method. Instead of imposing a prefabricated plan of improvement the firm customizes its efforts to best serve each individual client. Chief Officer Corathers has the unique ability to see the big picture of healthcare down to its individual components: from world-class technology companies to individual physicians.

She has worked at the community level through physician practice and hospital system programs on service line/referral development and at the global level through medical technology company services.

Under Corathers direction, the firm has produced outstanding medical market research and related positioning plans. In addition, the firm has developed solutions for hospital remote technologies to be seamlessly incorporated into hospitals that urgently need outside-the-box thinking in order to remain competitive while providing high quality patient care.

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Based on market insight, she has the ability to over see initiatives to help organizations with technology advancement in different phases of development. Corathers strives to stress the importance of commercialization early in the R/D phase, to better understand customer insight during the pre-launch phase, to conduct stellar product improvement research, and to help define next generation design initiatives. The firm was quick to realize the importance of evidence based practices and documented research to help move products to market and stimulate product usage history.

While Corathers assists clients in improving their bottom line through the advancement of new and innovative technologies, the true bottom line- quality patient care- is always at the center. Cathy has channeled energy, enthusiasm, and quality improvements into the healthcare industry throughout her career. Cathy Corathers constantly raises the line, setting high standards for the health care industry and then enabling one client at a time to reach for such standards.

In addition, through her company, Ms. Corathers has provided support to the Product Line Reviews for the Department of Defense, U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC).

Ms. Corathers is a licensed health care professional. She earned her Masters degree from West Virginia University in Health Education.

To accommodate today's fast-paced environment, Corathers goes beyond medical market intelligence and technology advancement services. She understands the importance of connectivity services.

As the need for new partnerships and collaborative relations is a critical component for innovations success, Corathers can open communications between groups of multidisciplinary teams to explore opportunities that can lead to stunning technological advancements. The Corathers firm is active with initiatives that work to develop new collaborative models of care.

Ms. Corathers enables physicians, health systems and corporations to explore new business opportunities for success. Her unique positioning approach to healthcare services is unparalleled.