Ms Evens has 17 years experience in healthcare including senior federal and state health information technology (IT) policy and governmental initiatives; execute roles within private sector health iT corporations; healthcare provider organizations and health services and policy research. She writes and speaks regulary on health iT across the country and participates in numerous federal, state and industry initiatives as a national expert.
Currently serving as Chief Executive Officer, Ms Evans is leading Active Health Provider as business of ActiveHealth Management. ActiveHealth Provider is offering advanced clinical decision support and Careteam solutions to doctors and hospitals, patient centered mediacl homes and accountable care organizations to improve care and reduce costs. ActiveHealth is an independent, wholly owned subsiduary of Aetna, Inc.
Most recently Ms Evans served as a Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Department of health leading an office of Health Information Technology Transformation where she oversaw a near $250 million investment program inNew York's health Information infrastructue- coupled with new health care payment and care delivery models- to improve the quality and reduce the cost of healthcare. New York's strategy serves as a critical underpin to health reform in New York and is serving as a model for the country.
Ms Evans previously served as a Senior Advisor to the nation's first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the United States Department of Health and Human Services. She was responsible for launching initiatives for the certification of health information tools, modernization of health information standards, nationwide information sharing architectures and evaluation of new policies for protecting patient privacy.
Ms Evans also has significant experience in the private sector. Prior to joining New York State, Ms Evans was a Managing Director of Manatt Health Solutions a policy and business advisory division of Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, wher she advised corporations on their health information and care improvementstrategies. Ms Evens has also served as Director of the Care Data Exchange division for CareCcience, Inc a care management company and provider of Internet based technologies serving hospitals and provider communities across the US.
Prior to joining CareScience, Ms Evans worked for the leadership and strategic operations group of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Northern California.