How Carequality Supports MIPS and Promoting Interoperability Requirements
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 |
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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 |