Lucia Savage

For more than twenty years, Lucia Savage has been working on ensuring trust while improving the affordability, safety, and quality of the healthcare we all receive. In 2015, while serving the Obama Administration as Chief Privacy Officer at what is now the HHS Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, Lucia revitalized the use of a HIPAA rule finalized in 2000—that a patient has a legal right to get a copy of their own PHI—as a tool to fight information blocking and the then-occurring lack of progress on nationwide health information exchange. As a nationally-recognized expert on health care regulation, digital health, health information privacy, and AI in healthcare, Lucia is still working to ensure trust while improving affordability, safety and quality in healthcare. Her focus now is ensuring trust while fostering the use of new care modalities, such as care where patients and healthcare professionals share clinical data in real time via private and secure (to a HIPAA standard) apps, so that care comes to the patients, instead of patients coming to the care. Lucia is currently Chief Privacy & Regulatory Officer at Omada Health. She has a JD from NYU School of Law.