Dr Thanga Prabhu

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SummaryProfessional experience:Health Informatics for GE Centricity (HCIT - healthcare IT) India leadership team. Clinical support for Sales, Implementation and Change Management in eCharting Solutions for ICU (intensive care unit) and OT (operation theatres) in addition to PACS (picture archiving and communication systems).Designing and building the next generation of CIS (Clinical Information Systems) primarily for the US market.

Internal medicine and Emergency medicine experience of 10+ years in Madras, India and Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Completed Health Informatics studies and gained experience in UK before entering HCIT. Practice Medicine for charity and professionally feel very satisfied.

Goal:Intend to revolutionize the way medicine is practiced (quality healthcare accessible and affordable to all), benefiting patients eventually.

Specialties: Medical domain knowledge, Health Informatics expertise, IT skills, Leadership skills, risk management, change management, six sigma (DMAIC, DFSS)

Experience: Clinical Director at GE Healthcare IT - IndiaNovember 2009 - Present (3 years 5 months)bringing world class affordable, accessible and quality Healthcare IT solutions to India

EC member at IAMI - indian association for medical informatics

March 2006 - Present (7 years 1 month)

Founding secretary of IAMI Bangalore chapter in 2008. After winning elections for National Secretary, held position from Jan 2010 to Dec 2011.Currently Executive Committee member.

International Ambassador at Swansea University

October 2005 - Present (7 years 6 months)

Helping students planning to study in Swansea University, UK working with India Director. Helping Swansea University in collaborations with Indian Industry and Academia.

Clinical Applications Consultant at GE Healthcare

January 2008 - December 2009 (2 years)Lead ePrescribing installation for Kuwait and Doha clients, working with the clinicians to identify requirements, matching the product capabilities to customer expectations. Interacted closely with FDB (First Data Bank) to support the product in international markets.

Worked on Clinical Documentation, Care Plans, Health Maintenance Alerts and Clinical Coding (ICD9,

ICD10, OPCS4, CPT and Snomed CT) simultaneously.

Domain expert, QA (Quality Assurance) focal point for all clinical matters, Requirements gathering with clinical precision/needs, research in synchronization with GRC (global research centre) to innovate,

evangelising medical informatics to youth and attracting talent from a diaspora of fields including medicine, engineering, biology, psychology, other health related fields, heading curriculum committee for IAMI (indian association for medical informatics) to setup IAHI (indian academy of health informatics) and increase the talent pool that industry needs and academia is unable to provide currently, passionate volunteer in the communtiy...

Clinical Validation - Perioperative Manager (CPM) at GE Healthcare

March 2007 - December 2007 (10 months)

Indepth understanding of a HCIT product used exclusively in the OT (Operation Theatre) called Perioperative Manager obtained. Worked as a validation engineer from first to last build until the product was delivered to

the pilot customer. Provided clinical knowledge to a wider audience simultaneously and was an active participant of a winning team for an internal exhibition in the company.

Lead Clinical Analyst Asia at GE healthcare

October 2005 - February 2007 (1 year 5 months)

Indepth knowledge of requirements gathering, designing, building, maintaining QA (quality assurance) by clinical validation of HCIT (healthcare IT) obtained in this stint. Designed by working in synchronization with colleagues globally an acute care product for Asia called EHR AE (electronic health records asia edition), clinically supported engineering teams in China and India build it and clinically validated the product from first to last build.

Research Officer - Engineering Dept at Swansea University

June 2005 - October 2005 (5 months)

worked on a Rolls Royce funded project to evolve a CDSS system using pattern recognition and ILN (information learning networks) to capture the medical diagnostic skills of a Consultant and deliver it to frontline clinician. The project is called X1Recall and it has been patented in the UK

(http://www.x1recall.com/).

Asst Head of Modernisation at NHS Wales, UK

March 2005 - June 2005 (4 months)

assisted the head of modernisation in Powys Local Health Board by using IT and other technologies.

emergency physician at Ministry of Health, UAE

August 1994 - August 2003 (9 years 1 month)

Practised in a high volume ED (350 patients/day) managing adult, paediatric, trauma, medical, poisoning, orthopaedic and psychiatric illnesses. Assisted the HOD of accident and emergency dept, to modernise and streamline the workflow in a tertiary care teaching hospital for the Ministry of Health, UAE using IT and networking.

Volunteer Experience:medical volunteer at GE Volunteers2005 - Present (8 years)

Volunteer Medical Officer @ Old Age home (170 residents) run by Little Sisters of the Poor, Hosur Road, Bangalore

Patents: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING PORTABLE HEALTH RECORDSUnited States Patent Application 13/650462

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING STAKEHOLDER SERVICESUnited States Patent Application 13/683709

Honors and Awards: 1985: Gold Medal for English creative writing titled ‘Perhaps’English Literary Association, Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute, Madras

1983: CBSE - Merit cum means scholarship for achieving all India rank 68 in class 10thCentral Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi

1985: Indian High School, Dubai - IHS scholarship for standing first in class 12th (CBSE, Delhi)Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi

Bhatia memorial Scholarship, Dubai for standing first in class 12th (CBSE, Delhi)

NOTT (Night on Town Award) for Techfest 2007GE Healthcare IT 2007

Above & Beyond - You Made a Difference!Srikanth Muthya GM HCIT GE India26 Nov 2010:Excellent way to leverage network, build new relationships and unleashing newer opportunities for the business

Above & BeyondMuthu K, ITPS manager GE India9 May 2011:for your efforts in completing CEGE installation at Action Cancer Hospital, Delhi

Above & Beyond, demomstrating GE growth valuesSrikanth Muthya GM HCIT GE India4 Jan 2012:Above & Beyond, demonstrating following GE growth values @ Fortis POC,

-Expertise: make the requested changes in no time-Clear thinking:Foresee Risks and have mitigations readily available-Imagination & Courage: Accept challenges and complete it comfortably

Above & Beyond - ExpertiseMuthukumaran K,ITPS manager GE India18 June 2012:ExpertiseFor your support during 2011 on customer demo and installations in eICU-Fortis Raipur

Publications:1. The Use of New Medical Technologies within the NHS, Fifth Report of Session2004–05,Volume I

UK House of Commons 2004healthcare IT is to 21st century what railways were to 20th century. in spite of all the teething troubles this is the way forward. Convergence of mobility, big data, analytics will mean quality healthcare for all accessible and affordable in our homes

2. Successfully Implementing Healthcare IT, A health informatician's perspective

Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management magazine 2011

clinician lead HCIT implementations are likely to be more successful than another IT project. The intricacies of medical work flows and the serendipity invisible to the untrained eye can only be addressed if recognized early. The HCIT cadre needs to be in place to own the project from day one. Electronic documentation offers a whole new way of working and should not try to replicate paper based workflows. Resisting change is natural, hence sustaining implementation through a lifecycle is needed. Learnings from BFSI, Aviation, Space and Nuclear industries will ensure the same mistakes are not committed twice.

LanguagesArabic (Professional working proficiency)Tamil (Native or bilingual proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)English (Native or bilingual proficiency)Sanskrit (Elementary proficiency)Welsh (Elementary proficiency)Kannada (Limited working proficiency)

Skills & ExpertiseInformaticsChange ManagementRisk ManagementHealthcareMolecular BiologySix SigmaIT skillsHealthcare Information TechnologyEHRHealthcare ManagementHospitalsLeadershipClinical ResearchEMR

Education:University of Wales, SwanseaMsc, health informatics, 2003 - 2005

University of MadrasMBBS, 1985 - 1990

The Indian High School, DubaiCBSE XII, english, physics, chemistry, maths, biology, 1983 - 1985Grade: Distinction

Bangalore Military School1979 - 1983

Colleagues views:

"Dr. Prabhu was a gread person with good healthcare domain knowledge. He was very helpful and down to earth man. It was pleasure to work with him."

— Prashanth Gowda, System Specialist, GE Medical System Pvt Ltd, worked directly with Dr Thanga at GE healthcare

"Great person to know and work with. Extremely helpful and always willing to lend a hand. Very sound in healthcare domain and informatics area, possessing a steep learning curve and able to solve problems efficiently. A true asset to any organization, and any person as a friend."

— Dr. S. B. Bhattacharyya, Marketing Program Manager, GE Healthcare IITS, worked directly with Dr Thanga at GE healthcare

"Dr. Prabhu is one of the nicest people I have ever known. He has helped us in connecting with some of the top corporate firms in Bangalore and working with us on Government Initiatives. Our work on Internationalization would not have been possible without his help. He is a person you can depend on to deliver. It has been a pleasure to work with him."

— Priti Unadkat, Owner, Study and Work, worked directly with Dr Thanga at Swansea University

"Dr. Prabhu is a very honest and detail oriented physician. I workrd with him for few years in UAE. He is very mature and confident"

— Hesham Khalifa, ER physician, GAHS, worked directly with Dr Thanga at Ministry of Health, UAE