The Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI) Appoints New CEO

New leadership to accelerate recognition and advancement of health data utilities

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI), a collection of the nation’s largest and most robust nonprofit health data networks, formally announced today the appointment of J. Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D., as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 2026. Overhage succeeds John Kansky, President and Chief Executive Officer of Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE), who has served for the past four years and will continue to serve on the CSRI Board of Directors. The appointment was first disclosed during the webinar “Introducing the CSRI Health Data Utility Capability Model” hosted by CSRI and Civitas Networks for Health^® on October 28, 2025, and this release provides additional details for the broader community and media.

“It has been a privilege to serve as the Chief Executive Officer of CSRI, and I am so pleased to pass the baton to a forward-thinking, innovative change agent like Marc to continue to drive CSRI’s vision for every state to have a statewide health data utility that enables better health for its entire population,” said Kansky.

With more than 35 years of experience, Overhage is a leading expert in developing, implementing, and evaluating clinical and health informatics systems, emphasizing clinical decision support and health information exchange. He is widely recognized for shaping how clinical data is shared and used to improve care delivery and research. Overhage most recently served as the SVP for Health Informatics and Data Architectures and Chief Health Informatics Lead at Elevance Health. He has also held executive positions at Cerner Corporation, Siemens Healthineers, Regenstrief Institute, Inc., and IHIE.

“I’m grateful for the opportunity to step into this role,” said Overhage. “We will continue to bring awareness to how HDUs are evolving to meet a state’s comprehensive health data delivery and analytics and support the health information exchange community and policymakers to make HDUs possible.”

Overhage began working with CSRI last year as a consultant, leading the development of the new CSRI Health Data Utility (HDU) Capability Model, which CSRI launched in October 2025. The HDU Capability Model establishes a method for describing and standardizing what an HDU can consistently deliver at scale, mapping more than 160 capabilities to the distinct needs of its public and private stakeholders.

With this transition, CSRI will continue its efforts to advance HDUs as a vital part of the health data-sharing ecosystem, both within a state and nationally, with robust capabilities to serve a range of stakeholders, including providers; public health agencies; Medicaid; and other state programs, payers, researchers, and patients.

About CSRI

The Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI) is a collection of the nation’s largest and most robust nonprofit healthcare data organizations. Collectively, our nonprofit organizations connect more than 100 million records for patients across several states and provide a wide range of services to healthcare organizations and state and public health agencies.

Founding CSRI members include Contexture, CRISP, CyncHealth, Indiana Health Information Exchange, and Manifest MedEx. Most recently, New York eHealth Collaborative joined in May 2025.