Recorded live in Chicago before an audience of HC3 members and partners, this fourth installment of Season 3 of the HC3 Podcast brings listeners inside the Q4 Summit, The State of American Healthcare. Hosted in partnership with Third Horizon and 4Sight Health, the event convened local and national leaders to examine the forces reshaping the health care system and what it will take to move it forward.

The episode opens with a Fireside Chat, Reset or Reinvention? The State of the System, moderated by Lynn Hanessian (The Engager Company) and featuring Dave Johnson (CEO, 4Sight Health). Johnson reflects on the accelerating pace of change across health care, outlining five macro forces placing unprecedented strain on the system and arguing that incremental solutions can no longer address exponential challenges. The conversation underscores the urgent need to rebalance spending toward prevention, chronic disease management, and population health.

The discussion continues with a panel, Where the System Is Breaking and Where It Can Be Rebuilt, moderated by Lynn Hanessian and featuring Dr. Bobby Mukkamala (President, AMA), Dr. Shikha Jain (University of Illinois Chicago Cancer Center and Founder, Women in Medicine®), Dr. Thomas Fisher (UChicago Medicine), and Dave Johnson. Panelists ground the conversation in lived clinical experience, highlighting how inefficiency, prior authorization, fragmentation, and misinformation translate directly into patient harm.

Panelists also explore opportunities for near-term change, including interoperability, site-neutral care, and aligning incentives with prevention and outcomes rather than volume. While the challenges are significant, the episode closes with a shared call for moral clarity, collaboration, and courage to stop what no longer serves patients and build something better.

This live edition captures a candid, urgent conversation about where American health care stands today and what it will take to shape what comes next.

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The Coming Healthcare Revolution: 10 Forces that Will Cure America's Health Crisis

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Recorded live in Chicago before an audience of HC3 members and partners, this third installment of Season 3 of the HC3 Podcast brings listeners inside the Q3 Summit: Transforming Health Through Data and Analytics. Hosted in-person at MATTER, the event united leaders from public health, informatics, investment, and provider organizations to explore how data can power smarter, more equitable care.

The episode opens with The Future of Public Health Data panel, moderated by Ashley DeGarmo (Third Horizon), featuring Roy Ahn (NORC), Heather Blonsky (Metopio), Dr. Alfreda Holloway (Cook County Department of Public Health), and Shelly Sital (AllianceChicago). Together, they highlight how collaboration and “trust in the math” can turn public health data into action.

In a Fireside Chat on Clinical Data Sharing, David Smith (Third Horizon) and Michael Barbouche (Forward Health Group) discuss the progress and pitfalls of interoperability, the role of AI, and the path toward a patient-centered data ecosystem.

David Smith's Keynote Price Transparency and the Future of Health Care, reveals how new regulations and open data are reshaping markets and accelerating value-based care.

The episode closes with Bright Ideas in Data-Driven Innovation, hosted by Steven Collens of MATTER, featuring entrepreneurs from Joystik Life, Care Vitality, ION Stewards Energy, and MindMetrix—each reimagining healthcare through bold, data-powered innovation.

This live edition captures how collaboration and analytics are transforming the future of health care.

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Recorded live in Chicago before an audience of HC3 members and partners, this episode marks the second installment of Season 3 and features highlights from HC3’s Q2 Summit: Strengthening the Front Lines of Behavioral Health. As mental health continues to take center stage in national and local discourse, this timely convening brought together leaders across health care, government, and social services to address a critical challenge: building and sustaining a strong behavioral health workforce.

The conversation explores how targeted investments in people, policy, and practice can address persistent workforce shortages and dismantle systemic barriers to care. A major moment in the episode is the debut of the Illinois Mental Health Parity Index (MHPI)—a groundbreaking tool developed by The Kennedy Forum and Third Horizon with support from the American Medical Association. By leveraging new health plan transparency data, the MHPI reveals disparities in commercial insurance reimbursement and network adequacy, offering an unprecedented opportunity for transparency, accountability, and reform.

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

Full Event Recap and Video available here

Mental Health Parity Index: https://www.parityindex.org/

Mental Health Parity Index Press Release here

Sista Afya Community Care (SACC) (www.sistaafya.org)

Open Roads Behavioral Health (www.asafehaven.org)

Chicago Integrated Health (www.chicagointegratedhealth.com)

Collaborative Bridges (www.collaborativebridgeschicago.org)

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