Improving value through focus on patient care and population health using intelligent systems and infrastructures for devices
Episode 44
Sanjay Joshi is a seasoned professional and leader with more than 25 years’ practical experience in healthcare and the life sciences. A “skunkworks” engineer, bioengineer and informaticist with a “non-reductionist” systems view of the real world.
Currently focused on patient care and population health using intelligent systems and infrastructures for Devices (IoT), Genomics, Proteomics, Microbiomics, Imaging and its integration and interoperability with the phenotype (EMR).
Why Healthcare? My grandfather was one of my mentors who is a trained physician.
Hot Topic that should healthcare leaders agenda: How to generate clean data
How do you work on getting cleaner data? Training physicians.
Setbacks that you learned from: Making data-driven decisions and budget.
Message about data-driven decision: Plan well, have plan b and c. Understand the risks. Plan the budget. Make data-driven decisions.
Proudest leadership moments: We built a multi-dimensional analytics engine using spectro analysis and made it work. It took us more than a year to convert into two dimensional chart .
Exciting Project: Utilizing graphical processing unit, visualization and feature engineering
Sanjay 101 Course on Outcomes Improvement:
1.What is the best way to improve healthcare outcomes?
Ask the right questions, collect the data cleanly, be aware of the biases, built the trust relationship with the population, respect privacy.
2. What is the biggest mistake or pitfall to avoid?
1) Don’t think you know everything 2) bias
3. How do you stay relevant as an organization despite constant change?
Don’t lose sight of your core values as an organization
4.One area of focus that should drive everything else is:
Try and reduce the complexity both in process and understanding
Recommended Book/s:
Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Your Child’s Developing Immune System
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Closing Thought:
Life is what happens between what you plan for it (John Lennon)
The Best Way To Contact Sanjay:
LinkedIn – Sanjay Joshi
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