Leveraging Data to Improve Health Equity Workgroup

Disparities in care exist throughout the healthcare system, but many payer, provider and life science organizations have not segmented their own health outcomes data by race and socioeconomic class so as to analyze the specific situations in which those disparities are occurring among their patients or members. Until they do so, they will not be able to understand the breadth and depth of the disparities or to develop strategies to address those disparities at the patient or population level. The goal of this Work Group is to enable payer, provider and life science CEOs to identify, track and manage the impact of race on prevention and clinical care.

Co-Chairs

Carrie Byington, EVP, University of California Health
Laurie Zephyrin, MD, VP, Delivery System Reform, The Commonwealth Fund

Work Group Fellows

Tosan Boyo, John Muir Health

Carrie Byington, UC Health (California)

Christopher Chen, MD, ChenMed

Nimesh Jhaveri, McKesson Corporation

Barbara Joers, Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare

Alexa Kimball, MD, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicans

Richard Shinto, MD, InnovaCare Health

Mark Smith, MD, California Health Care Foundation

Michael Uchrin, Monogram Health

Laurie Zephyrin, MD, The Commonwealth Fund