Under the Same Sky featuring Mark Savage, JD
Abner Mason was joined by Mark Savage, JD, managing director of digital health strategy and policy at Savage & Savage LLC, for this episode of Under the Same Sky. The dialogue illuminated Mark’s journey leading to the development and implementation of electronic health information technology to impacting health equity and community populations. Mark shared insights from his role as the SDOH policy advisor for the Gravity Project, and he emphasized the importance of involving the community while using data to bridge the clinical and social aspects of healthcare.
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About Mark Savage, JD
Mark Savage is Managing Director, Digital Health Strategy & Policy, at Savage & Savage LLC, where he continues his passion to transform health care by developing and leveraging electronic health information exchange as the backbone for patient engagement and access, delivery reform and shared care planning, health equity, patient-generated health data and social determinants of health, and community and population health. Mark served as SDOH Policy Advisor for the Gravity Project, building consensus-based standards for social determinants of health data integration, exchange, and use; serves on numerous multi-stakeholder policy committees under the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT; co-chaired the Health Care Task Force of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; co-chaired the National Quality Forum’s Interoperability Committee; serves on California’s Data Exchange Framework Stakeholder Advisory Group to build a statewide data exchange framework effective January 2024; serves on the board of directors of Manifest MedEx, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health information exchanges; and has provided Congressional testimony and numerous presentations on diverse health IT and health equity issues.
Previously, Mark was Director of Health Policy at UC San Francisco’s Center for Digital Health Innovation, where he led health policy strategy and development. In 2013-2017, he was Director of Health IT Policy and Programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families in Washington, D.C., where his team also led the Consumer Partnership for eHealth, a coalition of more than 50 leading consumer, patient and labor organizations nationwide working to advance person-centered health IT. By training, Mark is a civil-rights litigator, challenging diverse issues of discrimination and poverty through impact litigation and multi-cultural coalition building, first at Public Advocates, then at Consumers Union. Mark graduated from Stanford Law School and the University of California, Berkeley.
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