Lou oversees all data integrity, HIPAA and research initiatives for new analytics. Lou is the former owner of Chironet (Surgical Outcomes Information Exchange SOIX). He is the author of 14 edited books, 1 sole author book, and over 50 journal publications on health economics and policy. Lou was previously the Secretary of Health and Human Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia and served as Deputy for Policy to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). He has served on the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, the National Advisory Council of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Academy Health. Lou received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his bachelor’s degree from Lenoir-Rhyne University.