Lisa Bari advises diverse organizations on health IT and interoperability policy and regulatory strategy as an independent consultant at www.healthcareitpolicy.com. She recently served as the Health IT and Interoperability lead at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Innovation Center, and helped author the groundbreaking CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Proposed Rule.
She also led health IT strategy for the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus model, the largest test of primary care payment and delivery system reform in the U.S. As the Senior Technical Advisor on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Value-Based Transformation Initiative, Lisa designed and launched the CMS Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge, a $1.65M prize competition that spurred the use of CMS data to build AI-driven solutions to predict health outcomes in Medicare beneficiaries.
Prior to her federal government service at HHS and CMS, Lisa was the Associate Vice President of Marketing and Growth at Practice Fusion, a primary care-focused electronic health records platform. Lisa began her career in digital marketing and communications for consumer and enterprise technology firms, and has worked in the U.S., Germany, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
Lisa earned a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Health Policy and Public Health Leadership from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, an MBA from Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management, and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
