At Infosys, our Insurance, Healthcare and Life Sciences teams strive for holistic, better and safer healthcare through the technology we create. In this blog, we will discuss healthcare IT, obstacles, successes, new ideas and much more, with the aim of improving healthcare technology, and quality of life as a result.

Anant Kulkarni

Business Solution Manager, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies

Anant has more than 10 years of IT experience. He is responsible for business solution blueprinting, solution sales and driving Intellectual Property (IP) commercialization initiatives of mobility solutions developed in-house.

He has driven IP commercialization activities as part of non-linear growth initiative. He has brought about differentiation in offerings by positioning Infosys as innovation partner in client engagements.

Anant will blog on the usage of wireless technologies in healthcare and business imperative.


Anirban Majumder

Senior Engagement Manager, Healthcare, Infosys Technologies

Anirban has more than 15 years of IT experience. He has partnered with clients across IT and business areas, and developed solutions to resolve their business and operational challenges.

He will blog on healthcare IT, conferences and industry trends.


Alison Schambach

Principal, Healthcare Public Sector including Medicare, Medicaid and HIPAA, Infosys Technologies

Alison has 20 years of industry experience. She has developed a tool for NPI conversion, and assessed client capabilities in implementing Medicare Part D, Medicaid programs and Medicare Advantage.

She will blog on government involvement in healthcare such as HIPAA 5010.


Dr. R Balaji

Principal Consultant and Business Manager, Healthcare Practice, Infosys Technologies

Dr. Balaji has 19 years of industry experience. He is a Lead Solutions and Services, Sales and Implementation Consultant - Healthcare Provider for Infosys, Europe, the Asia Pacific region and India. He was instrumental in launching a key Infosys healthcare solution offering.

He will blog on clinical decision support and healthcare reform.


Dalton Hall

Senior Sales Manager, Healthcare Provider Vertical Market Solutions, Infosys Technologies

Dalton has 18 years of industry experience. His areas of interest include healthcare, outsourcing, application development, Hospital Performance Management, Business Intelligence, P4P, Compliance Management, ICD-9 and ICD-10, healthcare interoperability and mobile healthcare solutions.


Gary O. Claytor

Senior Sales Manager, Healthcare Practice, Infosys Technologies

Gary explores business opportunities at the Top 20 healthcare providers in the U.S. He specializes in developing Infosys’ relationships with leading healthcare providers in the U.S.

He will blog on healthcare outsourcing and offshoring in the U.S., and healthcare reform.


Karthik Srinivasan

Principal Consultant, Product Engineering Development (PED), Infosys Technologies

Karthik has more than 15 years of experience. He is the lead architect and evangelist for solutions and offerings in unified communications. He defines, builds and works with sales and alliance partners to market the solutions.

He anchors the Unified Communications Center of Excellence (CoE) at PED. The CoE helps companies derive significant value.

Karthik will blog on how current and emerging technologies in the areas of mobility and communications impact healthcare delivery.


Mark Brownlee

Associate Vice President and Head, Healthcare Provider Practice, Infosys Technologies

Mark Brownlee is the head of the healthcare provider practice at Infosys. In this role, he is responsible for the complete management of client relationships and building new solutions and accelerators to meet healthcare provider needs. He has served in various strategic capacities and has spearheaded several key initiatives for over 20 years at the organizations he has worked with.

He will blog on hospital performance management and healthcare reforms.


Nilesh S Pai

Project Manager, Healthcare Practice, Infosys Technologies

Nilesh has more than nine years of IT experience. He is engaged in building healthcare provider solutions based on the enterprise performance management platform. He is responsible for market outreach and generation of leads through multiple marketing channels at Infosys. He develops solutions to address the challenges of hospital stakeholders.

He has managed multiple client projects in life, disability and mortgage insurance; underwriting and premium pricing.

Nilesh will blog on hospital performance management and healthcare reform.


Dr. Parag Patel

Business Analyst, Healthcare, Infosys Technologies

Dr. Patel is a Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) consultant for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) 5010, ICD-10 transition and Infosys iTransformTM. He has more than five years of IT experience.

He will blog on ICD-10, HIPPA 5010 conversion and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) implementation.


Paul Rummell

Government and Healthcare Executive, Infosys Technologies

Paul has 25 years of industry experience. He has a proven track record of managing all the phases of complex business/technology initiatives for major clients in the private and public sectors. He has done extensive work in systems integration and outsourcing.

He will blog on healthcare procurement, data warehouses, clinical data repositories and government in healthcare.


Rajesh Patrao

Senior Technical Architect, Healthcare Practice, Infosys Technologies

Rajesh has 11 years of industry experience. As a solution architect, he offers architecture solutions for several major projects in Insurance, Healthcare and Life Sciences.

His areas of interest include approaches in business transformation, portfolio optimization, and Insurance and Healthcare ICD Code Transformation.


Rajiv Sabharwal

Chief Solutions Architect, Healthcare Practice, Infosys Technologies

Rajiv provides functional and architectural guidance for solutions. He has more than 18 years of IT experience and has managed more than 80 projects across various business areas and technology platforms. He has extensive experience in application development and solution architecting.

He will blog on ICD-10, Hospital Performance Management, healthcare reform and healthcare Pay-for-Performance (P4P).


Rob Eichler

Principal, Healthcare Practice, Infosys Technologies

Rob is a senior consultant with more than 20 years of IT experience. He has extensive experience in healthcare payer operations and payer system functionality.

He has developed the data element requirements for clinical informatics at a nation-wide payer’s data warehouse.

Rob will blog on healthcare claims modernization, healthcare reform and healthcare consumerism.


Seema Pandey

Principal, Insurance, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Infosys Technologies

Seema has more than 11 years of industry experience. She specializes in Healthcare IT consulting and solutions in Electronic Health Records, Disease Management, Hospital Performance Management and Health 2.0.

She is certified in PMP, HL7 and AHIP. She has published a paper on ‘Business Process Optimization in RHIOs.’

Seema will blog on Electronic Medical Records, Electronic Health Records, Healthcare Information Exchange, Telemedicine, Hospital Performance Management, Telehealth and Health 2.0.


Shinju Damodaran

Assistant Vice President & Group Engagement Manager, Healthcare Practice, Infosys Technologies

Shinju has more than 17 years of experience in software quality, delivery, business development and relationship management. He manages large account relationships, metrics and Knowledge Management. Shinju has nurtured one of Infosys’ largest accounts.

He will blog on ICD-10, healthcare IT reform, healthcare claims modernization and healthcare consumerism.


Shishir Kumar

Senior Consultant - Healthcare Consulting, Infosys Technologies

Shishir has nine years of industry experience. He specializes in provider domain, Supply Chain Management, IT transformation and change management in provider domain, and HIS/EMR implementation.

He was instrumental in establishing Infosys’ Healthcare practice and winning five key healthcare accounts. He is involved in solution ideation and ownership.

Shishir will blog on HIS/EMR implementation, Business Process Management, Web 2.0 in healthcare and clinical transformation.


Shobha Rao

Group Project Manager, Healthcare Practice, Infosys Technologies

Shobha manages a diverse solution portfolio across healthcare and life sciences. She has more than 12 years of experience spanning insurance, healthcare and life sciences. She has executed and managed Intellectual Property (IP) development, package implementations, data warehousing and new product introductions.

Her focus areas are healthcare enterprise performance management and Electronic Health Records (EHR). She is developing IP for hospitals in performance management.

Shoba will blog on hospital Business Intelligence (BI).


Vijay Kumar B

Project Manager, Healthcare Practice, Infosys Technologies

Vijay has more than nine years of industry experience. At Infosys, he has served leading healthcare customers and managed a key Medicaid customer before moving to pre-sales. Currently, he is anchoring the marketing back-end function of iTransform, Infosys’ solution for HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 transition.

He will blog on HIPAA 5010/ICD-10 and generic healthcare, and advances in technology.


Venu Tirumala

Senior Consultant, Healthcare Practice, Infosys Technologies

Venu has more than 13 years of experience in healthcare and consumer product management. He has been responsible for planning and implementing Disease Management Programs (DMP), portal development and several e-initiatives. He was part of a team that designed the maternity solution for a large Electronic Health Records (EHR) application. He has managed business development for DMP and Revenue Cycle Management for U.S. healthcare providers, designed and implemented DMP for healthcare providers.

He has successfully developed healthcare provider-focused solutions in revenue cycle and an entry strategy for a retailer in wellness and disease management.

Venu will blog on healthcare provider Revenue Cycle Management, disease management and payer claims processing.