HHS’ Hargan: Why HHS launched its first Innovation and Investment Summit

Late last year, HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan unveiled the department’s first Innovation and Investment Summit. The yearlong program hosts quarterly meetings with 15 private-sector leaders—with an emphasis on investors—in an effort to facilitate conversations on how the government can encourage investment in the healthcare industry.

Hargan, who delivered the closing keynote at Modern Healthcare’s Transformation Summit, spoke with technology reporter Jessica Kim Cohen. The following is an edited transcript.

On why he launched the summit
I came at it from the perspective of an attorney in the healthcare space. I knew that there was a broad array of clients, including private equity and venture capital firms, and that they have a different perspective that had...