Aaron McKethan is the Chief Data Officer for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. His career in government, academia, and the private sector has focused on health care delivery innovation, data and information technology. Most recently, he co-founded RxAnte, a predictive analytics and technology company focusing on improving population health (acquired in 2016). Previously, he directed the Beacon Communities program - the nation’s largest health IT cooperative agreement program - at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He also previously served as Research Director in health policy at the Brookings Institution, where he led projects focused on provider payment reform, health care quality and state health policy. Dr. McKethan’s academic work has appeared in such publications as the Journal of the American Medical Association.