Mark Savage

Mark Savage is Director of Health Policy at UC San Francisco’s Center for Digital Health Innovation, where he leads health policy strategy and development and data governance for the Center and its projects to advance interoperability, electronic health information exchange, delivery reform, and access for patients, providers and consumers nationwide. Mark also served on Cal INDEX’s Board of Directors as consumer representative and most recently as Chair.

Prior to UCSF, Mark was Director of Health IT Policy and Programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families. There, he oversaw the National Partnership’s strategy and work to advance electronic health information access and exchange as the backbone for patient access and engagement, delivery reform and shared care planning, patient-generated health data and social determinants of health, and reducing health disparities.

Among other positions, Mark has served on numerous multi-stakeholder policy committees under the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, has provided Congressional testimony and numerous presentations about health IT issues and co-chaired the National Quality Forum’s Interoperability Committee. Prior to joining the National Partnership, Mark was Senior Attorney at Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, where he led Consumers Union’s statewide project in California to advocate patients’ needs and amplify the consumer voice for electronic health information exchange and its core role in healthcare reform.

Mark graduated from Stanford Law School and the University of California, Berkeley.