Lisa Bari

Lisa Bari
NationalityAmerican
Education
  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science
  • Master of Business Administration (MBA)
  • Master of Public Health (MPH)
Alma mater
Parents
Family
Websitewww.healthcareitpolicy.com

Lisa Bari is an American health policy strategist and consultant. For a period, she served as the lead of health information technology and interoperability at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center (CMS).[1]

Education

Bari received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley, and later earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Purdue University. She earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.[2][3]

Career

Bari began her career in digital marketing and technology with companies like Art.com and Practice Fusion, where she had her first experience working in health care.[4]

Through her role at CMS, a federal health agency, Bari spearheaded new health information technology policies for the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Model.[5][2]

She also helped write the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Proposed Rule. She executed the CMS Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge, a competition with a $1.65M reward, which stimulated the development of tools with CMS data that best predict patient health outcomes.[6]

Bari left CMS in 2019 to pursue independent consulting, specializing in health information technology and improving payment models for health care providers.[6][7]

Advocacy

She is an advocate for health equity and patient and provider access. She has frequent public discussions on social media platforms such as Twitter, addressing such topics as the effects of low household income on healthcare accessibility, the framework of HIPAA regulations, and the navigability of Medicare's digital systems.[8][9][10]

References

  1. ^ Evans, Melanie (2020-01-20). "Hospitals Give Tech Giants Access to Detailed Medical Records". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  2. ^ a b "Lisa Bari". Primary Care Collaborative. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  3. ^ Lan, Yi-chen (2005). Global Information Society: Operating Information Systems in a Dynamic Global Business Environment. Idea Group Inc. ISBN 9781591403067.
  4. ^ Peters, Emily (2019). Procedure: Women Remaking Medicine (Vol. 1). Procedure Press. ISBN 9780578419169.
  5. ^ Farr, Christina (2020-03-18). "Telemedicine has a big role in the coronavirus fight, but doctors say the laws remain murky". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  6. ^ a b Brady, Michael (2019-09-04). "Interoperability leader leaves CMS Innovation Center". Modern Healthcare. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  7. ^ Tahir, Darius (2019-09-04). "Interopability projects maturing". POLITICO. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  8. ^ Landi, Heather (2019-12-16). "IT experts urge stronger oversight of patient data in the Wild West of consumer apps". FierceHealthcare. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  9. ^ Johnson, Akilah (2019-11-26). "The $11M dollar Medicare tool that gives seniors the wrong insurance information". FierceHealthcare. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  10. ^ Tahir, Darius (2020-06-17). "Congress examines telehealth policies, data disparities". POLITICO. Retrieved 2020-06-25.