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Telemedicine : About
Heading Telemedconsultant is Dr D Lavanian Consultant: Healthcare Informatics and TeleHealth . A Domain Expert in Healthcare Informatics and telemedicine, he is in addition, a Certified HL7 Specialist (One of the few doctors in the world to be so certified).
Given below
is his Curriculum Vitae
Dr D Lavanian
Certified HL7
Specialist
Domain Expert:
Healthcare Informatics, EMR,
Clinical care
pathways and EHealth
Core
competencies
* Healthcare
IT and EHealth : Consultancy, risk assessment & management, Delivery,
research and development
* Hospital
Processes and IT enablement, ( incl HIPAA, HL7,ICD-9-CM, DICOM, Read code,
etc)
* Dynamic
Techno-Managerial skills
* EMR, EHR,
clinical care Pathways, HIS, PACS, RIS development, integration,
deployment and operations.
*
Multi-national business development
*
Standardization of processes and workflow
* Strategic
level discussions with client leadership teams to identify pain points and
develop customized solutions
* Leading
development efforts in Healthcare Informatics
* Managing
cross-functional projects with proven track record of on time project
delivery
* Training of
Teams in HL7 and DICOM
* Medicare
processes in the Armed Forces and IT enablement
* Aerospace
Medicine, Aircrew health care processes and IT enablement
*
Hospital/medical waste management processes and IT enablement
Professional
Memberships
* Member Georgian EHealth Union (Georgia)
* Member American Medical Informatics Association
* Member HL7
*Member Telemedicine Society of India
* Member Task
Force for EHealth , Government of
* Co-convener
Standards Sub-Committee Govt TM Taskforce
* Life Member
Indian Association of Medical Informatics
* Life Member
Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine
* Life Member
Indian Society of Hospital Waste Management
Professional
experience
Vice President – Healthcare Products, Bilcare Research Ltd: Aug 2007 - present
He is part of the core team that has been entrusted with starting and ramping up a new business line, a ‘Healthcare Product’ in the healthcare IT vertical - beginning right from the vision statement and the strategic goals to the delivery of a world class product with a USP that does not exist any where in the world today.
He steers and supports the assessment of EMRs (incl top EMRs from companies like Epic, Eclipsys, Cerner, EClinical Works, HP,etc), Disease Management Apps and Healthcare portals for the company. The challenge of complex third party HCIT components interoperating and working transparently as one is the other big challenge that he is entrusted with. Other than that he heads HCIT content development along with the responsibility of selecting, developing, utilizing and retaining high quality talent to effectively operationalize multiple functional areas. These are the areas of ideation, content, design of enterprise wide software applications, compliance, interoperability with other apps, call centers and mobility platforms, risk mitigation strategies, training, deployment and operational management. This being a project with complex Global ramifications, his skill-sets of strong interpersonal communication, multi-cultural sensibilities and focused analytics come into play every day, in his dealings and negotiations with multiple companies, partners and vendors, in India, Australia and the US.
Former Vice
President - Software division AxSys Health Tech- till Jul 2007: AxSys
Health Tech is a
Former Vice
President – Technical- ATNF, Apollo Hospitals Group - Feb 2003 to Apr
2006: Starting out as the Delivery Head, he worked up to the post of
VP- Technical at Apollo Health Street (a large IT services organization)
then ATNF, both of the Apollo Hospitals Group, from Feb 2003 to Apr 2006:
A Domain
Expert in Healthcare Informatics and EHealth , he is a Certified HL7
Specialist (One of the few doctors in the world to be so certified), and
was trained by Mike Henderson (Mike was one of the authors of
Chap 2 of the HL7 V2.3 specifications). Further, he was trained by Herman Oosterwijk the top international expert on DICOM.
He headed Ehealth project implementations, operational management and marketing (incl
discussions, presentations and lectures regarding EHealth technology). The
applications included integration with internal and external HIS, RIS,
PACS and other Healthcare applications. His focus was on studying the
existing processes, work flows and pain points of the client healthcare
entity or hospital. He would then study the technical aspects from the
viewpoint of Business processes to ensure a cost effective solution and
based on the study, design a solution which would EHealth enable the
entity while providing interoperability with the existing HIS (his
experience as a senior Medical Administrator came in very useful out
here). He would then sit through multiple rounds of discussions with the
client to modify and polish the solution so as to make it acceptable. His
quadruple credentials (medical doctor, Informatics Expert, communications
specialist and senior administrator) helped him understand the issues and
requirements of disparate groups so that he could put together an amicable
and acceptable solution. On closing the deal he would then head
implementation of the solution and follow it up with operational
management. He was thus, the single point of contact for the client,
through out the complete life cycle of the solution. This ensured a high
level of satisfaction from a client viewpoint and translated to a high
success rate from his company.
After he joined
Apollo, his first activity was to rebuild and hire appropriate software
development and test individuals to align with the new road map that he had
planned. Though attrition was an issue with most teams, his work ethos
ensured that this was kept to a minimum This got him the trust and freedom
that he needed to carry out market intelligence, investigation and R&D
to development new software modules, products, methodologies and
technologies in the field of Life Sciences - a must to keep ahead in this
highly competitive domain. Some of the applications that were designed
from ground up by him are as follows:
Medintegra
Web: An enterprise wide web based EHealth application that permitted
world wide availability of the Electronic Medical Record which included Patient
investigations like ECGs, X-rays, MRIs, etc. The application was DICOM and
HL7 compliant and could exchange data with external HL7 compliant
entities. Security was HIPAA compliant. Designed to work on a Microsoft
platform using ASP technology, the later versions were successfully tested
on Linux and Mac OS. They were last working on improving functionality and
lowering the application costs further by moving to .NET and porting the
server database from MS SQL to MySQL.
MiniPax: A
Picture Archiving and Communications Solution (PACS); it was an addon to
Medintegra Web. Being browser and web based it was capable of facilitating
Telecardiology, Teleradiology and Telepathology.
MedIntegra
GoLive!: A multi user desktop audio-video conferencing solution. Based on
Flash 7 and Flash Communications Server this web based solution could
allow as many as 6 person video conferencing or 1:many (1 to 1000 users),
two-way interactive medical training using audio and live video streaming.
This was a powerful tool that supported them in training of users across
great distances. All of the above required him to constantly review and
plan for the optimal utilization of the human resources and infrastructure
under his command.
Another
important function was working across teams (HIS, PACS) to suggest
techniques of data transfer and data compatibility using HIPAA, DICOM and
HL7 protocols. With foreign implementations under his belt he was
responsible for dealing with top officials in the govt and depts like ISRO,
C-DAC, NEC, etc to propagate EHealth . His skills at negotiating with
foreign companies, hospitals teams, clients from different countries and
across cultures, successfully helped build up our revenue streams. His team
consisted of software, hardware, networking and marketing personnel and
together, they have carried out many EHealth road shows, demonstrations
(INTEL,
He was very active in training as it
is his belief that proper training is the key
to sustained and stable operational management. A guest lecturer for
EHealth at the
His expertise
and skills were even recognized by the Indian government, which requested
him to play a leadership role in the Government's thrust for EHealth by
offering him the post of co-convener "the Standards committee of the EHealth
Taskforce", which he accepted and actioned successfully. The Taskforce was a joint
venture of the Min of Health (MOH) and the Min of Communications and IT (MCIT),
government of
A well known
authority in the AsiaPAC region, he was invited by various well
known entities to speak on EHealth and Healthcare Informatics. Given below are a few
such forums where he was invited. For further details please visit www.telemedconsultant.com):
*Speaker -
`Global CSR Conclave' - NF Track at NASSCOM
* Speaker -
“Healthcare Informatics” Marcus Evans, Royal Orchid Sheraton,
* Speaker
-Annual meet of the American Telemedicine Association
* Speaker -
“Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management” Marcus Evans, Intercontinental,
* Speaker - `ICT
for National Development' CSI,
* Speaker -
Medi-IT Asia
* Speaker and
Demo - IntelemedIndia 2005, ISRO,
* Speaker -
ICMIT 2005, IIT
* Speaker -
CIT 2005,
* Speaker -
and Demo `Intel Centrino Launch', 2005,
* Speaker -
Meditel 2004,
* Speaker -and
Demo 'Intel
* Speaker -
4th VSAT India 2004 international conference & exhibition,
* Speaker - U
P Development Sub committee on Healthcare Meeting,
* Speaker -
Meeting of the Media Lab Asia Core Group on ICT for Healthcare,
* Key note
Speaker - “Ehealth - How it impacts your health positively” ISPAT,
Deputy
Director Medical Services (IT) (2000 - 2002)
His in-depth
knowledge of computers, networking, programming and system analysis help
him to plan, steer and implement an IT strategy for the medical services of
the Indian Air Force (IAF). He spearheaded the process of evaluations to
create an enterprise wide AF MedNet that would seamlessly connect Hospital
Information Systems, PACS, Ehealth applications, CPOEs and existing
applications. The aim was to ensure secure availability of a patient's
records at any AF medical entity in almost realtime.
Hospital
Administrator, Senior Medical Officer,
He was
appointed at various IAF flying stations earlier as medical officer or
squadron medical officer and later as Senior Medical Officer (SMO). As SMO
he gained valuable knowledge in medical administration and provided
comprehensive medical and health cover to isolated townships with
populations of between 1000 to 10,000 men and their families. During this
period (1986 onwards) he got drawn to Computers and learned to program;
first in GWBasic and then in Delphi, Visual Basic, Relational Databases
(Dbase, FoxPRO, Access, Oracle, etc), Internet languages (HTML,
JavaScript, JAVA, ASP, etc) and accessories (MS Office, Photo shop, Flash,
etc). The resulting knowledge was utilized in producing Healthcare
applications. His first App was a Hospital Drugstore Inventory management
system done in GW Basic in 1992. This application was hailed as `Most
Revolutionary' at that time and was very successfully utilized at his
hospital where he was in charge of hospital administration (a 75 bedded air
force hospital in the state of
Education
and courses
a.
MBBS 1979 AFMC,
b.
Primary Aviation Medicine 1983 IAM,
c.
MD(Alt Med) 1994 IBAM,
d.
Dip (Acu) 1994 I Alt M,
e.
Dip(Mag) 1994 I Alt M,
f.
Certificate Course in Hospital Administration 2002 NIHFW,
g.
Advanced DICOM and HL7 (Certified by
h.
HL7 V2.3 (Certification by HL7 organisation) 2004 ,
i.
Courses in Windows, HL7, DICOM 3, MS Office, networking (Win 2000
Server),Visual Basic, Oracle, Delphi, HTML, ASP, Java, JavaScript, Flash,
etc. (Self taught and formal done between 1986 and 2003).
Download His CV here
You can email him by clicking here or call/SMS 91-9970921266 .
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