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).

Education

Bari received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in Cognitive Science from

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of Californi ...

, and later earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ...

. She earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first ...

Career

Bari began her career in

digital marketing Digital marketing is the component of marketing that uses the Internet and online based digital technologies such as desktop computers, mobile phones and other digital media and platforms to promote products and services. Its development duri ...

and technology with companies like Art.com and

Practice Fusion Practice Fusion is a web-based electronic health record (EHR) company based in San Francisco, CA. The company was founded in 2005 by Ryan Howard and acquired by Allscripts in 2018. In 2013 the company was said to be valued at $700M and in 2014, ...

, where she had her first experience working in health care. Through her role at CMS, a federal health agency, Bari spearheaded new health information technology policies for the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Model. 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. Bari left CMS in 2019 to pursue independent consulting, specializing in health information technology and improving payment models for health care providers.

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 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA or the Kennedy– Kassebaum Act) is a United States Act of Congress enacted by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 21, 19 ...

regulations, and the navigability of Medicare's digital systems.

References

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