Corathers Health Consulting

About Corathers Health Consulting

Cathy Corathers

Cathy Corathers
Founder and Chief Officer

Bio Briefing

Cathy Corathers provides continuity and the primary leadership for the firm. In addition to her services, Corathers Health Consulting, LLC utilizes luminaries and unique specialty consultants through a team approach for most of their highly customized projects. Such a distinguished level, depth and variety of 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 medical technologies including such areas as telemedicine, surgical systems and hospital robotics.

Ms. Corathers is the founder and Chief Officer of Corathers Health Consulting, LLC, a firm with 20-plus years of experience in healthcare.

She is an expert in qualitative 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 collaborative models of care, business expansion and 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.

Special Project Consultants Jay H. Sanders, MD Mark G. Janczewski, MD, MPH

Her featured services for medical technology corporations include outstanding marketing research, product market validation services and collaborative care model initiatives. In addition, the firm has developed solutions for teletechnologies and remote robotic 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.

Based on market insight, she has the ability to help organizations with medical 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. Corathers Health can effectively connect companies with evidence based strategies and then help those companies to partner with hospitals.

While Corathers assists clients in improving their bottom line by setting priorities and creating collaborative approaches to healthcare, 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 meet those 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. Cathy has delivered presentations to thousands of healthcare professionals.

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. Corathers believes in focusing on the right resources, the right skills and the right collaborative partners within the right timeframe. The Corathers firm is active with initiatives that help to develop new collaborative models of care.

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