Healthcare IT News October 12, 2018
Tom Sullivan

Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan says the initiative is the first time in history HHS has reached to investors to understand what is holding innovation back.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is working with HIMSS Healthbox to reach out to investors and better understand the barriers to innovation.

WHY IT MATTERS

“This is going to be the first time we formally engage the investment community,” HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan told Healthcare IT News. “We work with providers, payers, pharma, medical device companies all the time – but we never talk to the people who are funding those to understand their challenges.”

HHS aims to change that with a series of events, dubbed Deputy Secretary’s Innovation and Investment...

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