Today, we announced the appointment of Niall Brennan as Chief Analytics and Privacy Officer to lead Clarify’s analytics and informatics strategy. He joins Clarify from his prior role as President and CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute. He previously served as the Chief Data Officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, where he led the Obama administration’s healthcare transparency efforts, built an advanced analytics enterprise, and played a key role in implementing numerous Affordable Care Act provisions, including the Qualified Entity Program and the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.

His appointment will drive continued innovation to Clarify’s healthcare analytics solutions and patient journey insights for health plans, providers, and life sciences companies, with a keen focus on two objectives:

• Advancing industry standards and establishing the precedent on how patient journey insights are shared between payers, providers, patients, and life sciences companies to build greater transparency between stakeholders in the US healthcare system.
• Establishing and leading the Clarify Health Institute, which will leverage the company’s data assets to provide thought leadership and partner with academics and policymakers across the industry on healthcare analytics solutions.

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