Rakesh helps to drive visionary activities and leads the Innovation, Research, and Development business area at HSX. He has a special focus on the HSX’s market place, the HSX MarketStreet platform –– an initiative that he leads for the organization. HSX MarketStreet opens API access to HSX’s Clinical Data Repository and connections to EMRs to support application development, interoperability and partnerships that will improve health, and access to healthcare data, for consumers. In addition, Rakesh oversees the technical implementation staff and set of vendor relationships that make possible the full range of health information exchange activities of HSX.
Rakesh brings to HSX a unique mix of public- and private-sector management consulting; operations, project, and program management; and implementation experience in healthcare — especially in health-information adoption and Meaningful Use. Prior to joining HSX, Rakesh worked as a Senior Project Manager (Consultant) for Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey on their Payment Innovation Program that focused on making their local ACO/PCMH/EOC/P4P programs available for all BCBS members across the country. This was an enterprise-wide program to exchange data with other Blues and BCBSA using Direct. Prior to that, he had worked for the New Jersey Regional Extension Center (NJ-HITEC) and was instrumental in making the program the foremost REC program in the country.
Rakesh has an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Anna University, India; an MBA degree in Management of Technology from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and an MS degree in Environmental Engineering from NJIT.