Pratyush Sharma

About Me

Hello! I’m Pratyush Sharma.

I’m a versatile and result oriented healthcare technology professional with more than 16 years of experience in working with leading organizations on healthcare  IT and digital strategy formulation, consulting, project/vendor management, requirements elicitation and fit gap assessment

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Professional Experience

Lead, Digital Health

15 Jul ’24 till date
World Economic Forum

  • Leading digital health initiatives at the World Economic Forum in India to improve healthcare outcomes and foster collaboration within the broader health ecosystem.

Vice President – Healthcare

8 Nov ’21 to 12 Jul ’24
Protean eGov Technologies Ltd. (Formerly NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Limited)

  • Product and innovation head for healthcare practice
  • Responsible for providing vision and leadership to build scalable digital healthcare solutions for the healthcare eco-system
  • Responsible for collaborating with leading healthcare associations and entities and co-creating innovative solutions that can help transfor healthcare in India

Principal Transformation (Healthcare)

17 Aug ’20 to 2 Nov ’21
Wadhwani Foundation

  • Led healthcare vertical for the Wadhwani Advantage program of Wadhwani Foundation
  • Was responsible for creating impact in the Indian healthcare industry and strengthening the healthcare eco-system
  • Was responsible for assisting Small and Medium Enterprises in the healthcare segment in solving their business challenges and helping them grow 2-5X and create livelihoods in the process
  • Was responsible for forming and maintaining strategic alliances and relationships with leading Industry Associations, channel partners, Government bodies and forums in healthcare
  • Was responsible for identifying innovative, tech-enabled and scalable solutions for the healthcare enterprises

Associate Director, Healthcare IT

14 Sep ’15 to 14 Aug ’20
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), India

  • Assisted in development of the healthcare technology practice at PwC India
  • Supported a Middle Eastern country’s Ministry of Health in their endeavor of corporatization of MoH and creation of Accountable care organizations (ACOs) by assessing provider’s coding and costing capabilities and devising strategy for provider’s enablement
  • Worked with a leading pharma client on providing technology point of view on supply chain
  • Assisted leading multi-national hospital group to decide the roadmap for its home grown hospital information system
  • Assisted global FMCG major in selection of an employee wellness portal o Responsible for end to end activities like business development, proposal preparation, client discussions, negotiations, consulting, project delivery and management

Senior Healthcare Consultant

9 Jan ‘12 to 11 Sep ‘15
CitiusTech

  • Worked with leading EHRs, CRO, Provider and interactive patient care provider o Provided consulting on Meaningful Use Stage 2 and ICD 10 migration to various EHRs in US
  • Led MU2 implementation projects spanning over a year
  • Performed various roles like Consultant, Business Analyst, SME, Project Manager, Product Owner and Scrum Master
  • Developed excellent understanding and expertise in areas like Meaningful Use, EHRs, ICD 9 to 10 migration, Interoperability, CCDA and clinical terminologies like RxNORM, NDC and SNOMED etc. o Worked on various RFPs, business development on areas like i2b2, clinical terminologies, Meaningful use stage 2, Apple health, CROs, data dictionary etc.
  • Presented webinar on MU Stage 3: 732 Pages in 60 minutes
  • Conducted seminars and published knowledge documents

Assistant Manager

2 Aug ‘10 to 6 Jan ‘12
iGATE (erstwhile Patni)

  • Played critical role in top level planning & strategy formulation for sourcing of JAVA resources
  • Acted as an interface between top management, delivery and project managers, resources and recruitment team
  • Analyzed current trends and situations in the BU and presented business intelligence to business unit heads to help them take optimized and informed decisions

Software Engineer (Senior)

13 Jun ‘05 to 20 Apr ‘09
iGATE (erstwhile Patni)

  • Worked for a fortune 500 client, which was a $1.6 billion leading global cardiovascular device company.
  • Developed various modules and common interfaces for the product (New Generation Programmer) used to analyze various families of pacemakers
  • Led & participated in RFP discussions on critical modules and performed requirement analysis and defect tracking
  • Involved in final verification runs of several modules to ensure timely and defect free FDA submission

Education Summary

Executive Program in Healthcare Management

5 Sep '21 to 4 Sep '22

IIM Calcutta (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta)

MBA – Finance and Marketing

20 Apr '09 to 20 Apr '10

Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai, India (Full Time)
CGPA: 3.675/4

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology

01 Aug '01 to 31 May '05

Indian Institute of Information Technology – Calcutta (Now, department of West Bengal University of Technology)
DGPA: 7.79/10

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