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Oscar Alleyne
Dr. E. Oscar Alleyne Managing Health Director, Public Health Dr. E. Oscar Alleyne is the Managing Director of the Public Health Division at MITRE Health FFRDC. He is responsible for senior leadership engagement with key federal health agencies leading delivery of...
Stephen Ondra
Stephen Ondra Chief Medical AdvisorClinical Quality and InformaticsAs Health FFRDC chief medical adviser, Dr. Stephen Ondra will serve as an objective adviser to all HHS organizations, providing thought leadership, guiding project teams, and building partnerships with...
Cheryl Austein Casnoff
Cheryl Austein Casnoff Managing Director, Healthcare Payment Innovation & Quality DivisionHealthcare DeliveryCheryl Austein Casnoff is managing director of the Healthcare Payment Innovation & Quality Division. She will lead our work for the Health FFRDC...
Jessica Skopac
Jessica Skopac Principal Health Policy AnalystHealth Policy A lawyer by training, Jessica Skopac has over 15 years of experience in healthcare and public health. Dr. Skopac serves as a project leader within the Care, Cost, Quality and Innovation department at MITRE to...
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Making FY19 The “Year of Data Quality” for Medicaid
MITRE’s Rebecca Bruno shares perspectives on CMS efforts to achieve Medicaid data quality to improve its oversight functions and provide data to the public that can be used effectively by researchers and stakeholders. For a program that provides...
Harmonizing Data and Facilitating Its Use Across Entities to Advance the Learning Health Care System
The promises of a learning health system are endless. Intelligent automation could reduce clinician burden. Clinical decision support systems may lead providers and patients to the best treatment option. Major federal initiatives are focused on putting the...
Opportunities to Improve Care Coordination and Patient Engagement Among Medicaid Beneficiaries
Highlighting research presented at the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in June 2018, Rebecca Bruno points in this blog post to solutions for addressing social determinants of health and improving health outcomes and reduced costs of care for...
Who’s using health data from your fitbit and smartphone?
The importance of ethical standards for consumer-generated data use in healthcare was a hot topic at AcademyHealth's recent 2018 Health Datapalooza conference. In this blog post in partnership with AcademyHealth, MITRE’s Jessica Skopac and Susan...
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