Insights, Comparisons and Trends
Helping healthcare organizations large and small in their goal of providing optimal healthcare.
How can we help you?
We help healthcare organizations quickly transform data into insights by analyzing public and proprietary healthcare information to compare hospital performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
Rapid deep insights
Comprehensive data
- see multiple CMS domains in one place, unified and enhanced
- 6800+ hospitals 12+ years data
- 2200 measures per hospital per year
Relative Comparisons
- compare any group of hospitals
- flexible hospital selection criteria, including driving distance
- "best in class" comparisons
About Us
Learn more about our story, our solution and our platform
Our Story
6MC is a software company focussed on offering a platform for the integration of current Medicare, census and client data supporting visual and analytic strategic decisions. Our team includes highly experienced clinicians, health care executives, and computing/data scientists.
Our Solution
6MC has designed a platform that finds the "meaningful information" buried in both public and proprietary datasets. "Meaningful" means accurate, easily understood and rapidly displayed, and supports both tactical and strategic decision making.
Our Platform
- in addition to CMS and census data, data sources may include proprietary and third-party data sets
- curated data can be supplied to analytic and AI language models
Meet Our Team
The talented and experienced individuals behind our success
Richard Hughes, MD
Richard is a physician, healthcare executive, and consultant with 40+ years of Chicago-based experience. Former Chief of Pulmonary Medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and Director of Postgraduate Education at Northwestern University Department of Medicine. Previously served as Medical Director at Continental Bank and Director of Strategic Development at the American Medical Association. Fellow of the American College of Physicians and Master of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Robert Unglaub
Bob is an IT management, marketing, and B2B sales consultant with 40+ years of experience. Former Partner at Integrated Marketing and Sales Solutions, President of Revenue Performance Management, and EVP of Sales and Marketing at Worknet. He previously served as President of The Spectrum Group and held sales and marketing management roles at IBM's Business Information Technology division. Bob specializes in sales team training, business process implementation, strategic alignment, and revenue growth optimization.
Steve Landers
Steve is computing/data scientist and executive with 40+ years of experience, based in Perth, Australia. He is Principal of Digital Smarties, an IT design studio serving clients across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia and he currently serves on the governance board of the Tcl programming language. Previously Steve was CTO for Chicago-based startups Keepsayk and Iconicast, was technical lead for the Einstein Brain Atlas project and a research consultant to the AnatLab Virtual Anatomy Laboratory and the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Denise Oleske, PhD
Denise is an epidemiologist and biostatistician with 20+ years of experience analyzing large electronic databases to track healthcare trends and assess intervention impacts on quality and patient outcomes. Proven leader in academia and biopharmaceutical industry, managing global teams and directing strategic initiatives using multi-national databases across clinical trials, Medicaid, Medicare, commercial insurance, managed care, and hospital/community services. Holds PhD from University of Illinois and MS from University of Michigan. Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology with 50+ peer-reviewed publications and authored textbooks on epidemiology applications in health services.
Joseph Messer, MD
Joe is a practicing cardiologist with 50+ years of Chicago-based experience. Former Director of Cardiology Section, Professor of Medicine, and Senior Attending Physician at Rush University Medical Center, and former Chief of Cardiovascular Unit at Boston City Hospital. He currently serves as Consultant and Senior Clinician Educator at NorthShore University Health System and Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago. Joe is a Fellow of five medical societies and Master of the American College of Cardiology. His national leadership includes roles with AMA's Physicians' Consortium for Performance Improvement, ACC's Partners in Quality Committee, and National Quality Forum's cardiovascular panels. Editor of six medical journals and member of six Appropriate Use Panels.
David Roseman, MD
Dave is a retired Professor of Surgery and Senior Attending Surgeon at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center with 28 years of experience in general surgery and surgical oncology. He was a pioneer in clinical computing since 1966, developing computerized intensive care units and medical databases to improve surgical care cost and outcomes. Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and former member of CPT advisory committees for ACS and AMA. Dave previously served on Board of Directors of Eolas Technologies, Inc. Current interests include geographic information systems, underwater mapping and visualization, and 3D design and fabrication.
Dan Conley
Dan is a marketing communications consultant with 40+ years of experience. He is the founder of Beacon Communications, a B2B public relations firm specializing in business development with a 20-year track record of translating client expertise into market-leading content across professional, industry, and business publications. Dan maintains established relationships with editors and association leaders built through deep industry knowledge and he brings combined European and American perspectives to healthcare market positioning and communications strategy."
William Blake
Bill is a data analysis and marketing strategy consultant with 25+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience. He is principal and co-founder of Calilsym, LLC and SagePath Partners, LLC, serving pharmaceutical and biotech clients, and former SVP, VP, and Director of commercial marketing analytics, business strategies, and sales at Takeda and TAP. Specializes in pricing and cost-effective solutions for highly regulated industries.
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Richard L. Hughes, MD
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 312 498-3445
Robert Unglaub
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 312 505-2569