Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is responsible for Carequality’s strategic direction, and for the development and oversight of the Carequality interoperability framework.
The Steering Committee specifically has responsibility for:
- Governing the work of Carequality to assure that the work group and Advisory Council activities are conducted in a manner consistent with Carequality’s vision and principles.
- Manage the work of Carequality to maximize efficiency and effectiveness within an annual Carequality budget.
- Establishing work groups and corresponding work group charters that define the work group composition, scope, deliverables and timeframes for completing its work.
- Evaluating, prioritizing and adopting new use cases.
- Seeking input and recommendations from the Carequality Advisory Council and other stakeholders, to assure broad stakeholder input.
- Maintaining a definitive list of use cases and other deliverables, to assure clear versioning of such work, developed and maintained by Carequality.
- Coordinating with standards development organizations, policy-related endeavors and other federal and industry initiatives to help align the standards and specifications employed by the Carequality with other like efforts.
- Overseeing other centralized functions supported for Carequality.
- Overseeing a process, as needed, to address questions or disputes regarding any Carequality deliverable.
- Evaluating ongoing program effectiveness on a periodic basis and implement process improvements over time.
The following individuals are members of the Steering Committee:
| Member Name | Organization | Stakeholder Group Represented |
|---|---|---|
| Brendan Keeler | HTD Health | Vendors |
| Deven McGraw | Citizen Health | Consumer-facing technology developer |
| Eric Rel | CVSHealth | PBM/Specialty Pharmacy |
| Glenn Raley | Humana | Payers |
| Hans Buitendijk | Oracle Health | Vendors |
| Jay Nakashima | eHealth Exchange | Networks |
| Jeff Coughlin | AMA | Physicians |
| John Blair | MedAllies | Networks |
| Laura Williams | Trinity Health | Healthcare Provider Organization |
| Lucy Johns | Health Care Planning & Policy | Representatives of Patients and Consumers |
| Matt Becker | Kno2 | Networks |
| Nancy Beavin | Medica | Payer/Healthcare Plan |
| Nichole Sweeney | CRISP | HIE organization |
| Paul Wilder | CommonWell Health Alliance | Networks |
| Rob Klootwyk | Epic | Vendors |
| Ryan Howells | CARIN Alliance | Consumers |
| Sean Fry | SSA | Federal Agency |
| Shamekka Marty | Representatives of Patients and Consumers |