On August 9, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, our member companies, and mayors from our Mayors’ Circle representing cities across the Bay Area launched the Be a Hero, Wear a Mask campaign. Our nation’s top health experts – including Robert R. Redfield,…
A late-evening phone call on March 10 from San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President Cindy Chavez set a course for what has become one of the most important efforts the Silicon Valley Leadership…
Healthcare's Integration Imperative. There are moments in life that forever change you: a wedding, the birth of a child, and the loss of a loved one. In healthcare, we’re honored to witness many of these moments with the people we’re…
The future of personalized health care Big data, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics: Commonly heard and often misunderstood terms that invisibly touch many aspects of our daily lives. From navigating the morning commute to shopping online, advances in technology,…
Here's food for thought . . . How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? I recently read an article in a major magazine proclaiming that kids born today could have a life expectancy up…
Here's food for thought . . . Taxing Innovation Tempers Job Creation. One of the most troubling elements of the Affordable Care Act, known also as Obamacare, was the tax imposed on America's medical device companies. Since this $29 billion…
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the percentage of low-income obese children ages 2 to 4 dipped in California from 17.3 percent to 16.8 percent. Childhood obesity rates went down in 19 states, up in three…