About Us
Enabling consumers and their authorized caregivers to access more of their digital health information with less friction.
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.
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 principles:
Empower consumers and providers to partner in health care decisions at every level, wherever the consumer seeks care.
Make consumer health information easy to get, use, and share by consumers and their care teams.
Make consumer health information digital, valuable, and intuitively understood by the end user.
Use an ecosystem of innovative platforms while remaining platform agnostic.
Support industry best practices with implementing consumer-directed exchange.
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.
We have developed a trust framework and code of conduct for consumer-directed health information exchange.
We develop Open Technical Standards for organizations to share more data with consumers with less friction.
We are working with providers and payers across the country on Technical Pilots that will implement our work for the benefit of all consumers.
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
