About Us

Enabling consumers and their authorized caregivers to access more of their digital health information with less friction.

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Our History

CARIN  is a Non-partisan, Multi-sector Alliance Co-founded by David Blumenthal, David Brailer, Aneesh Chopra, and Mike Leavitt. The Alliance is led by Distinguished Risk-bearing Providers, Payers, Consumers, Pharmaceutical Companies, Consumer Platforms, Health IT Companies and Consumer-advocates Working Collaboratively with other Stakeholders in Government to Overcome Barriers in Advancing Consumer-directed Exchange across the U.S.

Our Vision

CARIN’s vision is to rapidly advance the ability for consumers and their authorized caregivers to easily get, use, and share their digital health information when, where, and how they want to achieve their goals.

Guiding Principles

CARIN’s work is guided by the following guiding principles:

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Collaboration

Empower consumers and providers to partner in health care decisions at every level, wherever the consumer seeks care

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Availability

Make consumer health information easy to get, use, and share by consumers and their care teams

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Usability

Make consumer health information digital, valuable, and intuitively understood by the end user

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Multi-platform

Use an ecosystem of innovative platforms while remaining platform agnostic

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Consensus best practices

Support industry best practices with implementing consumer-directed exchange

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Strategic Priorities

Our vision is to rapidly advance the ability for consumers and their authorized caregivers to easily get, use, and share their digital health information when, where, and how they want to achieve their goals.

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Trust barriers

We have developed a trust framework and code of conduct for consumer-directed health information exchange.

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Technical barriers

We develop Open Technical Standards for organizations to share more data with consumers with Less Friction.

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Adoption barriers

We are Working with Providers and Payers across the country on Technical Pilots that will implement our work for Benefit of all Consumers.

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Policy barriers

We provide public comments and make recommendations to policymakers including: Congress, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), Office of Civil Rights (OCR), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and others to help advance consumer-directed exchange.

Co-Founders

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National Coordinator: 2004-2008
David Brailer
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United States CTO: 2009-2012
Aneesh Chopra
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Secretary of HHS: 2005-2009
Mike Leavitt
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National Coordinator: 2009-2011
David Blumenthal
Management Team
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Principal at Leavitt Partners
Ryan Howells
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Principal at Leavitt Partners
David Lee
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Director at Leavitt Partners
Mark Roberts
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Manager at Leavitt Partners
Ashley Hudak
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If you’d like to be considered for membership, please connect with one of our team