Health Information Technology is a complicated space. Before Disrupting Healthcare provides a quick introduction to its foundational concepts and products with a look into emerging trends that may rule the future. In it you’ll learn about topics like Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchanges, Accountable Care Organizations, and Meaningful Use regulation. Discover what they mean from a product perspective and how things might evolve. This is a must-read for anyone working on, or investing in, health information technology products. Outsiders can use this book to become insiders, and insiders can become experts.
After finishing medical school, in 2001 Pallav veered into a technology-focused career that enabled him to work at medical device companies (GE, Omnicell), health insurer (UnitedHealth Group), hospital systems (Kaiser Permanente), tech (Google) and several startups.
Over 17 years he has worked with Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchanges, Clinical Data Analytics, Population Health Management and Cloud technology products. He also taught Medical Informatics courses at Northwestern University.
Pallav received his MBA from Northwestern University, a Masters in Medical Informatics from Columbia University, and a Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from Delhi University, India. He currently lives in silicon valley and continues to indulge in the Health IT entrepreneurship space.
Find out more about him on pallavsharda.com or LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Quora.