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.

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The following individuals are members of the Steering Committee:

Member NameOrganizationStakeholder Group Represented
Ben GurgaSSAFederal Agency
Brendan KeelerHTD HealthVendors
Deven McGrawCitizen HealthConsumer-facing tech
Glenn RaleyHumanaPayers
Hans BuitendijkOracle HealthVendors
Jay NakashimaeHealth ExchangeNetworks
Jeff CoughlinAMAPhysicians
John BlairMedAlliesNetworks
Laura WilliamsTrinity HealthHealthcare Provider Org
Lucy JohnsHealth Care Planning & PolicyConsumers
Matt BeckerKno2Networks
Nancy BeavinMedicaPayer / Healthcare Plan
Nichole SweeneyCRISPHIE organization
Olga Korsunsky CVSHealthPBM/Specialty Pharmacy
Paul WilderCommonWell Health AllianceNetworks
Rob KlootwykEpicVendors
Ryan HowellsCARIN AllianceConsumers
Shamekka MartyRepresentatives of Patients and Consumers