David Braza
Executive Vice President of Healthcare Informatics and Chief Actuary
Premera Blue Cross
David Braza is the Executive Vice President of Finance, Healthcare Informatics and Chief Actuary at Premera. He provides strategic leadership to the organization’s Data & Analytics functions. He is passionate about leveraging healthcare data to significantly advance Premera’s ability to improve patient outcomes by improving the performance of regional healthcare practices. This focus on healthcare information has fostered better collaboration among patients’ various healthcare providers.
David has an unwavering commitment to addressing systemic problems; namely, the fragmentation of care and data and misaligned financial incentives. He aims to improve patient quality and satisfaction and lower the per capita cost of healthcare using data analytics.
He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society, and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.