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May 29, 2020

By Bill Lucia (Mr. Lucia is chairman, president and CEO of HMS, a leading healthcare technology and analytics company and a Healthcare Leadership Council member) Nobody wants to have their … Continued

May 15, 2020

Private sector innovation has been critical in meeting the growing public health needs driven by the coronavirus pandemic.  Nowhere has that innovation been more apparent than in the Chicago area … Continued

April 15, 2020

During times of crisis, a point of structural weakness becomes glaringly visible and vulnerable.  The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a spotlight on the inequities that exist in this country when … Continued

March 31, 2020

Dr. Julie Gerberding, former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and today an executive vice president of an important home care company, merck for strategic communications, global … Continued

March 12, 2020

Robert Popovian, Pharm.D., MS. One of the most underutilized ways to reduce medical costs in the U.S. is health care prevention. Unfortunately, politicians choose instead to implement draconian policies such … Continued

February 25, 2020

Massive amounts of healthcare data are collected across the nation, and as technology advances the question of how to use it has continued to be a discussion.  There have been … Continued

January 28, 2020

One area in which we have seen a great deal of bipartisanship in Washington is in the effort to prevent and treat substance use disorder.  In 2018, Congress passed groundbreaking … Continued

October 9, 2019

We applaud the Department of Health and Human Services for launching regulatory action aimed at advancing value-based care and enabling greater care coordination to benefit patients.  While we will be … Continued

September 27, 2019

This year the theme of National Health IT Week is focused on driving better health outcomes and equity in our communities.  The Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), with its broad membership … Continued

September 19, 2019

September 16-20 is National Obesity Care Week (NOCW).  NOCW is a source for science-based information on obesity.  More than 93 million Americans are affected by obesity, with an estimated cost … Continued