Lisa Bari

Lisa Bari is an American health policy strategist and consultant. For a period, she served as the lead of health information technology and interoperability at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center (CMS).

Education Bari received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley, and later earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Purdue University. She earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Career Bari began her career in digital marketing and technology with companies like Art.com and Practice Fusion, where she had her first experience working in health care.

Through her role at CMS, a federal health agency, Bari spearheaded new health information technology policies for the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Model.

Advocacy She is an advocate for health equity and patient and provider access. She has frequent public discussions on social media platforms such as Twitter, addressing such topics as the effects of low household income on healthcare accessibility, the framework of HIPAA regulations, and the navigability of Medicare's digital systems.