Mark Scrimshire BA

Mark is an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at NewWave Telecoms and Technologies (newwave.io), currently on assignment as Medicare Blue Button 2.0 Innovator at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) where he have designed and implemented the new API to enable 53 million Medicare Beneficiaries share their claims information with the applications, services and research programs they choose to trust. This HL7 FHIR-based API is being held up as a model for adoption across the HealthCare industry. He is Co-Founder of Medyear, a Salesforce accelerator company.
Previous he had Health sector experience has included designing a platform for chronic diseases during the early days of the Internet, working with CareFirst on the implementation of the NPI, and establishing the first cloud-based ICD10 computer-assisted coding platform for 3M as part of the transition of its entire product line to a cloud-based architecture.
As the founder and Chief Instigator of HealthCa.mp, an international series of “un-conferences” breaking down silos and bringing people together to reinvent health care he have consistently advocated for patient engagement and empowerment. This passion for patient empowerment coupled with a diverse expertise across multiple Web and Health technologies provides me with a unique perspective in reengineering healthcare,from Strategy to development and deployment, with the patient/consumer at the center.