Barry Portugal

Barry Portugal is president of Health Care Development Services Inc., a strategic business planning management consulting firm. Health Care Development Services Inc. is the nation’s oldest management consulting firm specializing in healthcare system laboratory and pathology issues. Formed in 1981, HCDS has represented more than 350 hospital, healthcare system, pathology group, and multispecialty clinic clients in operational organizational, financial, and market engagements.

Portugal consults with hospitals and healthcare systems, pathology groups, and large multispecialty group practices. His special area of interest is strategic planning and business development for healthcare providers. In this role, Portugal has designed business plans which have successfully achieved goals desired by client organizations.

Portugal is a member of the American Hospital Association Society for Hospital Planning; the Clinical Laboratory Management Association; the American Association of Clinical Chemists; the American Pathology Foundation; and the Medical Group Management Association.

Additionally, Portugal has written articles that appeared in Clinical Laboratory Management Review, Pathologist, Modern Healthcare, and the Medical Group Management Association Journal. He has been a featured speaker at gatherings of the American Hospital Association, Health Care Financial Management Association; the American College of Healthcare Executives, Clinical Laboratory Management Association; and the American Pathology Foundation focusing on hospital laboratory and pathology strategic planning and business development issues.

Portugal has undergraduate and graduate degrees in business administration from the University of Illinois and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively. He also attended Northwestern University School of Law.