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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Ben Gurga | SSA | Federal Agency |
Brendan Keeler | HTD Health | Vendors |
Deven McGraw | Citizen Health | Consumer-facing tech |
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 Org |
Lucy Johns | Health Care Planning & Policy | Consumers |
Matt Becker | Kno2 | Networks |
Nancy Beavin | Medica | Payer / Healthcare Plan |
Nichole Sweeney | CRISP | HIE organization |
Olga Korsunsky | CVSHealth | PBM/Specialty Pharmacy |
Paul Wilder | CommonWell Health Alliance | Networks |
Rob Klootwyk | Epic | Vendors |
Ryan Howells | CARIN Alliance | Consumers |
Shamekka Marty | Representatives of Patients and Consumers |