about the author

Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer is a deputy editor for Endpoints News, running the Health Tech newsletter. Through the Health Tech newsletter, she’s covering the forces shaping the next decade of healthcare, from tech giants, to massive healthcare companies, to startups and the investors backing them. She covers breaking news, scoops, analysis, and what everyone in the industry is talking about. Before Endpoints, she spent 8 years as a healthcare editor and reporter for Insider. While there, she helped build the publication’s healthcare coverage, breaking news on drug-pricing debates, chronicling the fall of Theranos, covering the biggest industry-moving mega-mergers and analyzing the new ways people are going to the doctor. As an editor she’s worked on stories that get inside Big Tech’s ambitions to take on the healthcare industry, and investigated startups that grew fast, and what that meant for patients. She launched Insider’s annual 30 under 40 list and authored the Insider Healthcare newsletter from 2018 to 2021. Be sure to subscribe to the Health Tech newsletter.

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