Erin is a California-based health tech reporter at STAT, where she's covered the promise and peril of AI in health care, broken news about health tech companies, and written comprehensively about wearables and their impact on digital health. Erin has also provided unique insights into the inner-workings of health tech players including Google and Facebook, and detailed the challenge of health misinformation amid the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.
Before joining STAT, Erin spent five years as a health and science reporter and editor at Business Insider, where she provided the inside scoop on what went wrong at the microbiome startup uBiome, leading to an FBI investigation and the company’s bankruptcy.
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