Gartner Expert

Kate McCarthy is a Vice President and Team Manager on the Gartner healthcare and life science industry research team. In this role, she supports healthcare and life science executives who seek to respond to disruptive, digital innovation upending today's business model. Her research addresses the culture, strategies, tactics and tools required to digitally transform, optimize and future-proof their organizations. Kate's advises global clients on healthcare and life science stakeholder engagement with human-centered design principles rooted in empathy and enabled by technology. Kate has twenty years of healthcare and life science strategy experience across the care continuum, including academic medicine and research, health information technology, digital health, health insurers and public policy. Kate has supported the development of integrated delivery networks, early-stage payment reform innovations, such as bundled payment for care improvement (BCPI) and accountable care organizations (ACO), and the legislative process for both the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).Kate is a noted and frequent presenter at national conferences. She infuses talks with her personal experience as a rare disease patient and is regularly quoted in news outlets on healthcare and life science innovation, wearables, digital experience and disruptive market influencers. Kate travels with her service dog, Winnie, and is an advocate for rare disease patients and individuals living with disabilities, both visible and invisible.

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