Before Disrupting Healthcare: What Innovators Need To Know

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, health insurers, hospital systems, and startups.

His non-clinical career started with GE Healthcare, with roles in services, engineering, R&D, and marketing organizations of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) business. During that time, he also served as an Instructor for the graduate Medical Informatics program at Northwestern University in Illinois. Subsequently, he joined Kaiser Permanente to work on Clinical Data Analytics and Population Health Management technology initiatives. He then transitioned to UnitedHealth Group and led the Product Management team for Health Information Exchange (HIE) solutions. Before leaving the corporate world in 2014, he was the Director of Health IT Interoperability initiatives at Omnicell, Inc.

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 Menlo Park, California and continues to indulge in the Health IT entrepreneurship space. Find out more about him on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/pallav), Facebook (www.facebook.com/pallavsharda), Twitter (www.twitter.com/pallavsharda), Quora (www.quora.com/pallav-sharda), or his personal websites: pallav.shardas.com, and multiplyd.com.