Niall Brennan is Chief Analytics and Privacy Officer at Clarify Health, where he leads Clarify’s analytics and informatics strategy. He joined Clarify from his prior role as President and CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute. He previously served as the Chief Data Officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, where he led the Obama administration’s healthcare transparency efforts, built an advanced analytics enterprise, and played a key role in implementing numerous Affordable Care Act provisions, including the Qualified Entity Program and the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.

Authored by Niall Brennan, M.P.P.

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New Initiative Aims to Build a Model Open COVID-19 Patient Data Registry Network

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Data for Action program, managed by AcademyHealth, is supporting a collaboration between Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), CareJourney, and a network of health systems to increase the availability of standardized, actionable information on COVID-19 impact and progression.
Posted By Niall Brennan, M.P.P.
Topics Using Health Data Data Sharing Public & Population Health
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The Healthy Marketplace Index: Furthering Transparency to Improve our Understanding of Commercial Healthcare Markets Across the Country

A new report from the Health Care Cost Institute, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, examined relative healthcare prices across the U.S. and found widespread healthcare price variation across metro areas.
Posted By Bill Johnson, Ph.D., Kevin Kennedy, BS , Niall Brennan, M.P.P., Sally Rodriguez, M.P.H.
Topics Using Health Data Paying for Care Costs & Payments