Daniel Kortan
State Director, PointClickCare — The Strategist of Stall and Surveillance
Dan Kortan holds the title of "State Director" at PointClickCare, a vendor positioned at the intersection of government healthcare, digital surveillance, and profit-driven stagnation. On paper, his work appears collaborative—focused on stakeholder management, health informatics, and strategic partnerships. In practice, Kortan was sent in to sabotage progress, manipulate data access, and halt momentum around the HealthChoice Illinois ADT program.
When PointClickCare won the contract to run Illinois' Health Information Exchange (HIE), they did so by underbidding their competitor by $12 million. This aggressive pricing, enabled by the backroom alliance with Kary Nulisch and furthered by Kortan, was never about innovation or service delivery. It was about control. Kortan didn’t step in to solve problems—he stepped in to suppress them. He became a firewall between Dana Wilson’s groundbreaking transparency work and the information legally required to support it.
Under Kortan’s direction, the vendor stopped supporting meaningful integration of hospital and provider data, deliberately withholding information that was part of the signed agreement. Rather than helping to move the system toward real-time interoperability, Kortan aligned with HFS insiders—Kati Hinshaw, Deepak Dhankher, and Dave Barnes—to isolate Dana, discredit her program, and reroute momentum away from Medicaid-serving patients and toward commercial health plans and profit-generating schemes.
Key Flags:
Backchannel Coordination: Kortan continued to collaborate with Laura Zaremba (former Governor’s Office & HMA) even after her official exit from state service, raising red flags about long-term strategies to privatize state infrastructure and ensure HFS oversight remains in the hands of legacy political operatives.
Diversion from Medicaid Priorities: By focusing PointClickCare's efforts on national health plans and high-revenue payer groups, Kortan abandoned the core purpose of HealthChoice Illinois ADT—to serve the real-time care coordination needs of Medicaid beneficiaries.
Obstruction of Contract Transparency: Dana Wilson, the appointed steward of the program, faced deliberate roadblocks and contract violations—44 counts ignored—as Kortan systematically made himself unavailable, ignored written follow-ups, and engaged only when pressured.
Conclusion: Dan Kortan plays the role of the polished vendor liaison who says the right things in meetings, but behind the scenes participates in a data laundering machine built to profit, obscure, and control. His affiliations with public-private entities like PointClickCare and HMA demonstrate the deep entrenchment of corporate interests in what should be a publicly accountable system. His presence in the story isn’t as a builder of solutions—it’s as a handler of narrative, a sealer of files, and a protector of the system that exploits those it's paid to serve.
In short: He wasn't sent to fix it. He was sent to make sure you never could.
from:Brian Glubok <brianglubok@gmail.com>to:"consciouscreationiam@gmail.com" <consciouscreationiam@gmail.com>
date:Apr 17, 2024, 9:14 AMsubject:Amazing to Meet You
Hi Dana,
I want to constantly emphasize how amazing it is to have met you this morning. Lately I am resonating at a higher frequency than I am used to and your aura and positive energy is immediately apparent to me.
Recently an ethereal acquaintance asserted and emphasized to me in correspondence that I was a light-spreader - I was thrilled to hear it, though not that aware of it. I do what I can, yes - the world has been good to me and I try not to play the "victim card" too much - despite my comedic riff on the subject this morning with you in the parking lot at Discovery. And I am somewhat famous / notorious for "speaking truth to power" - but that doesn't automatically make me a "light-spreader". So I was kind of flattered to hear it.
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I looked at your web-site - Amazing! You are a very gifted person, and you are no doubt helping many others (me included, now). Please continue to do that.
Leaving Discovery this morning, I heard two guys in the parking lot discussing how there's a Grateful Dead Night Friday at the Cardinals game in St. Louis - I attended that event once before there, in 2022 - I do love that band (or a good cover band performing their songs).'
Closer to home, I'll invite you for coffee or a meal (no alcohol!) for tomorrow night at Boone's - if you can't make it tomorrow, we'll look for another time - I can try to find out when they have their Open Mic Night there, that is always an especially good time to visit.
A couple more notes, than an executive summary:
1) Brian Glubok is my legal name, and my "Bridge Playing" name - Sean Silverman is my "painting name",, and the name I prefer to go by in Springfield.
2) I recently (around a month ago) launched my "Bridge Agency", and also began writing (and posting) a blog on my life in bridge (also chronicled on Wikipedia) - since I saw you earlier today I wrote #37 this morning, I mentioned our encounter there.
3) I will make it a high priority that I treat you with respect and deference - you are an amazing and talented woman, and I am especially impressed that you are sophisticated about the toxic jabs - that you have used artistic means like the book you described to resist that and perhaps save some lives - that is more amazing still.
So while I will make every effort not to crowd you, I do want to acknowledge - you are a very attractive and gifted woman, and I am a single guy, looking hard for a suitable partner. IThis will not surprise you, certainly you are no stranger to male attention, but even so, I don't want you to have to guess lor wonder about that.
That said, I am open to any sort of friendship or casual acquaintanceship with you - I am a painter (as well as a writer and world-renown bridge player) so I was especially struck by the quality of your art.
Sorry this note ran so long - main point:
It was great to meet you this morning!
Your Friend,
Sean Brian