Mark Savage, JD

Mark Savage is Managing Director, Digital Health Strategy & Policy, at Savage & Savage LLC, where he continues his passion to transform health care by developing and leveraging electronic health information exchange as the backbone for patient engagement and access, delivery reform and shared care planning, health equity, patient-generated health data and social determinants of health, community and population health, and patient privacy and security.  Mark served as Program Staff Lead and Subject-Matter Expert to the federal Health Equity by Design Task Force under the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy; served as SDOH Policy Advisor for the Gravity Project, building consensus-based standards for social determinants of health data integration, exchange, and use; serves on numerous multi-stakeholder policy committees under the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT; co-chaired the Health Care Task Force of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; co-chaired the National Quality Forum’s Interoperability Committee; serves on California’s Data Exchange Framework Stakeholder Advisory Group to build a statewide data exchange framework; serves on the board of directors of Manifest MedEx, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health information exchanges; and has provided Congressional testimony and numerous presentations on diverse health IT and health equity issues.

Previously, Mark was Director of Health Policy at UC San Francisco’s Center for Digital Health Innovation, where he led health policy strategy and development.  In 2013-2017, he was Director of Health IT Policy and Programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families in Washington, D.C., where his team also led the Consumer Partnership for eHealth, a coalition of more than 50 leading consumer, patient and labor organizations nationwide working to advance person-centered health IT.  In 2003-2013, he was Senior Attorney at Consumers Union, one of nation’s leading consumer advocacy and policy organizations and publisher of Consumer Reports.  In 1989-2003, he became President and Managing Attorney of Public Advocates, one of nation’s oldest, leading civil-rights law firms, fighting systemic poverty and discrimination.  By training, Mark is a civil-rights litigator, challenging diverse issues of systemic discrimination and poverty through impact litigation and multi-cultural coalition building, first at Public Advocates, then at Consumers Union.

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