Meet the Founder
Hi, I’m Katie
I help healthcare companies communicate their value, gain and retain customers, and establish their expertise in the market through professional research and communications.
What I Bring To The Table
Education
1 Master’s of Public Health (MPH) degree from The University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Maternal and Child Health as well as a Global Health Certificate. (2013)
Experience
15 years of professional experience across the healthcare industry, including global public health, software design and development, top-tier hospital innovation projects, and agile start ups.
Expertise
I’m a professional. I deliver on-time and on-budget. I collaborate well with teams. I am both fact-driven and empathetic, making me a top-notch business communicator.
Industry Contributions
Articles, Media Contributions & Research
Healthcare Innovation:
CHIME Digital Health Insights, “Sister Gadget” is leveraging health tech to take care of nuns around the world
CHIME Digital Health Insights, Remote Patient Monitoring: Quietly improving healthcare
CHIME Digital Health Insights, Nurse innovators are going mainstream
CHIME Digital Health Insights, What do the Future Tech Hotshots tell us about healthcare innovation?
CHIME Digital Health Insights, Digital Twins in healthcare: Revolutionizing personalized medical care
CHIME Digital Health Insights, How patients are hacking healthcare with open source technology
CHIME Digital Health Insights, Key takeaways from the PHTI State of Digital Health Purchasing Report
CHIME Digital Health Insights, Meet the woman turning scientists into digital health executives
CHIME Digital Health Insights, What does it take to add new digital biomarkers to health wearables?
CHIME Digital Health Insights, These Innovative Digital Health Startups are Addressing the Pediatric Mental Health Crisis
CHIME Digital Health Insights, Are Google AI overviews helping or hindering consumer health education?
Duke Mobile App Gateway for Digital Health, Blog, How to Fund Your App Build, Part 1
Duke Mobile App Gateway for Digital Health, Blog, Fundamentals of FHIR
Duke Mobile App Gateway, Blog, Digital Medicine Conference Recap
Duke Mobile App Gateway, Blog, “Now You’re Speaking My Language!”: How to Talk to an App Developer About Your Research App
Duke Mobile App Gateway, Blog, Flip the Script: Prescribing Digital Care to Patients
Katie D. McMillan, Where Will Digital Health Gain The Most Traction?
Katie D. McMillan, What IS Digital Health?
Morning Consult, Wearable and App Users Tracking Health Tech’s Next Step
The Mobile Doc Blog, Is ResearchKit right for you?
The Sustainable Future Blog, Health Experience Design Reflections: Exploring Digital and Analog Patient Experiences
Triangle Business Journal, Duke, Mission Join UNC in Apple Collaboration
Journal of Medical Internet Research, Selecting Mobile Health Technologies for Electronic Health Record Integration: Case Study
Women’s Health Technology
CHIME Digital Health Insights, Meet the health tech trailblazers from Inc.’s Female Founder 500.
CHIME Digital Health Insights, ViVE 2025: A spotlight on women’s health tech
CHIME Digital Health Insights, FemTech forecast: Policy, Regulation and Funding
CHIME Digital Health Insights, What happened to the Amazon fertility tracker?
CHIME Digital Health Insights, Why we need more women’s health data for AI models
CHIME Digital Health Insights, Home hormone tests for perimenopause lack clinical value
CHIME Digital Health Insights, ARPA-H Women’s Health Sprint invests millions in health technology solutions
CHIME Digital Health Insights, Bloomlife: How a D2C digital health company went B2B2C and why
CHIME Digital Health Insights, Empathetic AI chatbot transforms reproductive health conversations
Bustle, Everything You Need to Consider Before Integrating FemTech Into Your Life
Blog Post, A Primer on Protecting Your Health Data in a Post-Roe World
FemTech Insider, Katie D. McMillan: “We can’t sum up all of our medical needs as women to our lady parts!”
MDisrupt Blog, How Digital Health is Improving Breast Cancer Screening and Care
MobiHealthNews, Telemedicine for All Your Women’s Health Needs
What is known about the efficacy and safety of tech products for reproductive health? Ongoing research
Start! Magazine: Disruptors Edition The FemTech Boom
STAT News: Proposed rules to protect health data in an era of abortion bans fall short
“Katie has a unique skillset: familiarity with healthcare, familiarity with technology, and deep connections with the mobile technology community.”
— Ricky Bloomfield, MD, Apple Health
Courses & Presentations
Healthcare Innovation
Advisor, Triangle Start Up Weekend: Health Tech
Advisor, NODE Health Global Advisory Council
Board Member, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Alumni Association.
Course, Addressing Healthcare Challenges Through Design Thinking, 6 week course for students from UNC, NC State and Duke University
Presentation, Switchpoint Conference, Design Thinking and Behavior Change for the Layperson
Presentation, Design Thinking 101 Lecture, Duke University
Presentation, Epic User Group Meeting
Presentation, Digital Medicine Conference, Best in Innovation
Presentation, Health Experience Design Conference, Poster, “It takes two to make a thing go right: marrying internal and external innovation talent”
Panelist, “So There’s An App for That! But Who Wants It?”, Duke Global Digital Health Science Center
Panelist, Duke Masters of Management in Clinical Informatics, Careers in Mobile Health
Panelist, Digital Medicine Conference, Using Data to Achieve a Caring and Connected Health System
Panelist, Digital Medicine Conference, Benchmarking success to Overcome Evidence Generation Challenges in Digital Health
Panelist, From Twinning to Winning: How Immersive Tech is Reshaping Healthcare, ViVE 2025
Women’s Health Technology
Presentation, Digital Medicine Conference, FemTech is Getting Hot! It's Not Your Imagination. Innovation, Funding, and Evidence in Women’s Health
Presentation, Duke University Health System, Department of OB-GYN Grand Rounds, FemTech 101: Advancements in Digital Health for Women, 2019
Presentation, HIMSS and Cleveland Clinic Patient Experience Summit, Advancements in Digital Health for Women
Panelist, Empowering Women Together event series
“Katie is creative and collaborative with a strong bias for action - making her an ideal teammate.”
— Margaret McNab, Launch Bio
Podcast Guest Interviews
Piloting Your Life, Episode 86: Improving Healthcare Solutions for Women by Pairing Technology with Health
The Femtastic Podcast, FemTech and Your (Digital) Health
Relentless Health Value Podcast, Actually Operationalizing Healthcare Innovation
The Thinking Edge Podcast, Katie McMillan - CEO of Well Made Health with a 'thinking edge' in digital health consulting
The Public Health Millennial Podcast, Episode 80: Katie D. McMillan, MPH
Health Impact Live - Summer 2022, Realizing the Promise of a Better, Faster Patient Experience at the Digital Front Door
Health Impact Live - April 2024, Following the Money in Women’s Health: From Biden’s Executive Order, ARPA-H Sprint to Oprah, Is Women’s Health Finally Getting the Attention it Deserves?
medDesign by Trig - December 2024, Exploring the Future of Healthcare: AI, Wearables, and Digital Twins with Katie Donohue McMillan
“Katie is not only able to skillfully navigate the realms of technology and healthcare operations, she excels at communicating to each audience with understanding and empathic precision.”
— Donald Murry, Duke University Healthcare System
Apps and Product Collaboration
Apple Health Records, Duke University Health System, early adopters of patient-oriented mobile health records. Press
Caremap, | App| One of the first Apple Carekit apps for children with complex medical needs. Press
BWEL, Breast Cancer Survivor Weight Loss program, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Pumpspotting |App| Breastfeeding support for parents and employees
Digital Care, Duke University Health System, Educational content and associated algorithm for pregnancy education
Medical Guidelines App Prototype, |Web App| Easily accessible flowcharts and reference documentation for pediatric neonatology and trauma surgery protocols
Calliope, FHI360, The Contraceptive Technology Pipeline database
Cancer Distress Coach, Duke University Health System Innovation portfolio project.
Pillbox, Duke University Health System, a FHIR-enabled medication education and tracking tool for endocrinology patients.
Contact Me
You: Interested in working together.
Me: Excited and curious!
Send me a message about your company needs and I’ll set up a time for us to connect.