Missy Krasner, M.A.

Healthcare/Health IT Professional

Ms. Krasner has over twenty years of marketing, business development, and policy experience in healthcare and health information technology.  Her experience ranges from coordinating high-level policy briefings at senior levels of federal government to launching technology products at Google. Ms. Krasner worked at Google for 5 years in health and consumer marketing.  She was one of the founding members of Google Health, an online medical records and wellness platform and spearheaded the Google Health Advisory Council.  In her later years at Google, she managed and led the search launches marketing team. Prior to her role at Google, Ms. Krasner worked for the Bush Administration in the Secretary’s Office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She was Senior Communications Advisor to Dr. David Brailer, M.D., Ph.D., the first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).

 

Before coming to HHS, Ms. Krasner worked as Marketing Director for CareScience, a healthcare information technology company that developed the first Health Information Exchange (HIE). Prior to her role at CareScience, Ms. Krasner worked in the Communications Practice at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-partisan, national, healthcare policy think tank.  Ms. Krasner also worked at Aetna where she spearheaded communication campaigns during two corporate mergers to help the company enter the managed care space.  Ms. Krasner holds an M.A. in Communications and Healthcare and Business Administration from Stanford University and a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has published a series of articles and blogs and is a member of HIMSS, served on the CCHIT Task Force on PHRs, the Lance Armstrong International Advisory Council, and the Planned Parenthood International Marketing Advisory Council.