Carter Powers is both Dimagi’s Managing Director of the United States Health Division as well as Dimagi’s Co-President as the chair of Dimagi’s Executive Committee. As the Managing Director of the United States Health Division, Carter leads a 50+ person team that focuses on public health use cases and collaborations in the United States through state and local governments and community-based organizations. As Co-President of Dimagi, Carter oversees corporate governance and initiatives across all of Dimagi’s global divisions inclusive of acquisitions, capital strategy, organizational restructuring, and change management. In this capacity, Carter also leads Dimagi’s Business Strategy team. Carter joined Dimagi in 2011 and has led Dimagi through a period of tremendous growth across revenue, staff and technology projects delivering quality health care to urban and rural communities.
The lack of consistent data standards poses a major barrier to the exchange of information across stakeholders. As providers and administrators struggle to identify the best next step to meet new standardization rules, they need a strategy tailored to the intricacies of their program, based on their specific data workflows — which might look vastly different state to state.