Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Rajesh Viswanathan, CTO, Inovalon, to debate their investments and efforts in leveraging India because the centre for cloud transformation in healthcare that may considerably improve affected person outcomes.

Cloud expertise impacting affected person care
As increasingly of the sufferers’ information goes on-line, it has change into increasingly necessary for the digital methods which are coping with this information to scale. And as you consider the quantity of information about every affected person that is now additionally logging on, you’ve gotten the expansion that is occurring each horizontally when it comes to the variety of sufferers and when it comes to the quantity of information about every affected person, which is a gigantic quantity of information that must be processed, saved, after which analyzed. To be capable to do these at scale, you actually need the applied sciences that the cloud affords. The concept there may be which you could scale infinitely as you enhance the variety of sufferers and the quantity of information that you simply’re processing for every affected person. Once you’ve gotten all of that information collectively, you’ll be able to truly run analytics on it to supply all types of fascinating information that may assist enhance the affected person’s consequence.That’s going to assist the affected person learn about their situation earlier than it will get worse. It’s going to assist decrease the price of the system since you truly managed to intervene earlier than you ended up having the affected person go to the extra invasive finish of the care spectrum. That’s a easy however actually highly effective instance of how cloud technologies can truly actually assist the affected person journey and enhance the outcomes for the affected person and the system when it comes to the prices that had been spent to enhance the take care of that affected person.
Inovalon: Journey
The historical past of Inovalon has been a historical past of steady evolution to go add extra capabilities that may drive higher affected person outcomes. We began out within the enterprise of serving to well being plans present higher care for his or her sufferers. Very quickly we realized that we will carry related capabilities to suppliers: medical doctors and hospitals and nurse methods that may assist them of their day-to-day life offering care to the sufferers. We then added pharmacy companies so we may help pharmacists who’re additionally a part of that healthcare ecosystem be concerned in higher take care of the sufferers. Finally, we added prescribed drugs and life sciences firms so we will use all the information that now we have to assist them do issues like drug trials and assist give you higher outcomes to the sufferers utilizing the information that we offered to them. This journey basically mirrored my very own journey into discovering well being care. My expertise is absolutely in constructing giant scale cloud applied sciences. Over the final 20 years, I’ve been working with AWS, Oracle and Microsoft constructing these large-scale methods. As I checked out my subsequent steps in my profession, one of many challenges that struck me was healthcare as a possibility, given the size of the information that now we have, given the significance of the mission of bettering affected person care and the way I might carry my experience in constructing large-scale methods within the cloud to assist resolve these issues in healthcare.

That was what attracted me to the area itself. And Inovalon as an organization was the right place for me to come back to as a result of it had managed to construct this connectivity throughout this whole ecosystem of suppliers and payers and pharmacists and life sciences and pharmaceutical firms. So by having that connectivity into the whole lot of the healthcare ecosystem, Inovalon has truly managed to have major supply information that turns into the core of the corporate and that permits us to leverage that information to empower higher well being take care of our sufferers. And so, my very own private journey has mirrored the expansion of Inovalon itself and really feel prefer it’s been on the excellent time for me to come back in and assist carry my experience to the subsequent part of our journey in scaling up our capabilities to leverage the cloud to go do all the stuff that we’re doing, however do it sooner, higher, and sooner.

Health Tech: Challenges and Opportunities in India
One of the challenges, as we talked about our subsequent steps in our development part, is the way to carry the expertise into this drawback area and assist leverage experience to go resolve these issues. And India grew to become a pure place for us to go have a look at, given the breadth and depth of capabilities that now we have right here in India when it comes to the expertise swimming pools obtainable. For the final decade, now we have been concerned in bringing expertise from India to assist us on this drawback area. As we have come to this inflection level, although, we now see the chance for us to degree up, on how we leverage our investments in India, transferring our investments from being round utilizing it as workers augmentation capability to extra of a driving end-to-end possession and native management straight out of India. In order to attain this, we just lately employed a senior vice chairman of Engineering, out of India with the concept that we’re inverting the pyramid and relatively than hiring solely low-level junior builders, we’re now going to rent our senior leaders in India who will then assist us scale and develop out the enterprise and the engineering in India. The manner they will do it’s by bringing the end-to-end possession of the issue area and the answer to be owned domestically in India.

It allows us to really leverage not simply the expertise experience of the expertise pool in India, but additionally give them the enterprise area to go resolve. And given the power of India’s expertise pool, we expect that is an enormously elaborate alternative for us as an organization to succeed.

As we’re constructing out this group in India, we’re leveraging India because the hub or the house of our cloud transformation effort. We see India as constructing the foundational platform that may underpin our whole cloud journey as we’re migrating and reworking our firm to be a cloud native SaaS platform. We see India because the empowering hub that is going to create the applied sciences and the foundational parts of that expertise platform and the technique therein. So, India may be very, very essentially essential for our future going ahead.

Tapping the well being tech expertise in India
What makes this an extremely thrilling alternative for builders right here in India is the strategy that we’re bringing right here is one among end-to-end possession. The intent right here is to not have people which are simply an extension of a crew within the US, however as an alternative they really take the whole drawback and apply distributed system approaches to fixing these issues. So, it is actually fascinating for somebody who needs to go work on excessive scale methods. Every alternative, each studying that you simply get in any one of many hyper scalers in AWS or Microsoft are alternatives that you will get working right here at Inovalon. Applying these capabilities to a really extremely leveraged drawback, a human drawback of affected person outcomes and bettering these, makes it a extremely fascinating and thrilling factor for any developer on the market. We like to faucet into that chance, and which is why we’re driving these massive investments right here in India.