Prof. Dr. Suman Bhusan Bhattacharyya
Mobile: +91-9810595261
Email: sbbhattacharyya@gmail.com, sbbhattacharyya@yahoo.com, ceo@bc2ri.com
URL: www.sbbhattacharyya.info, www.bc2ri.com
Executive Summation
Ü An
astute medical professional with more
than 37 years’ experience in Healthcare Informatics, Hospital Management
and as a Consultant Family Physician.
Ü Adjunct
Professor, Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, Punjab.
Ü Expert
on EHR Standards, Telemedicine and Health Data Science.
Ü Head
of Delegation to ISO TC215 (Health Informatics), Bureau of Indian Standards
(since 2022).
Ü Convener,
AYUSH Informatics Working Group, Health Informatics Sectional Committee, MHD
17, Bureau of Indian Standards (since 2022).
Ü Member,
Health Informatics Sectional Committee, MHD 17, Bureau of Indian Standards
(since 2007).
Ü Member,
Project Review Steering Group (multiple), MeitY, Government of India.
Ü Member,
Working Group for R&D in Information Technology, Department of Electronics
and IT, Ministry of Communications and IT, Government of India.
Ü Clinical
Informatics Consultant, Karkinos Healthcare Private
Limited (2021 – 2024).
Ü Member,
EHR Standards for India Committee, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare,
Govt. of India (2010 – 2016).
Ü Head
of Health Informatics (Retd.), Tata Consultancy Services (2010 – 2017).
Ü External
consultant for e-Governance in Healthcare projects to National Institute for Smart
Government, Hyderabad (2008 – 2010).
Ü Vice-Chairman
Election Commission (2017 – 2020), IMA Haryana State.
Ü Honorary
State Secretary (2015), IMA Haryana State.
Ü President
(2010 – 2011), Indian Association for Medical Informatics. Also, Secretary
(2006 – 2009), Treasurer (2004 – 2006) of the same association.
Ü Secretary
(2010 – 2013), Indian Medical Association, Faridabad Chapter.
Ü Practicing
General Medical Practitioner.
Ü Authored
“Introduction to SNOMED CT” (ISBN 978-981-287-895-3), published internationally
by Springer™ in January 2016.
Ü A
keen planner, strategist and implementer with skills in devising and
effectuating business plans, aimed at enhancing the functioning of the
organisation, achieving business targets, developing products to provide
effective solutions to healthcare industry, and improving process efficiency.
Ü Strong
project management expertise in the field of testing (verification and
validation), development of end-user manuals, customer-software engineer
relationship management particularly during implementation phase
Ü Strong
domain expertise in the field of general medicine and healthcare, coupled with
insightful experience of serving as functional architect for the development of
software products.
Ü Thorough
knowledge of the SDLC entailing requirement analysis, requirement finalization,
design, development, testing, troubleshooting and implementation.
Ü A
skilled analyst with a flair for understanding exact process requirements and
accordingly designing technology-based solutions and processes.
Ü Possess
extensive knowledge and experience in Information
Modeling for Semantic Interoperability, Telemedicine
and medical informatics, particularly electronic health records, evidence-based
medicine, clinical decision support systems, clinical analytics and automated
treatment protocol planning using machine learning algorithms to support
personalized medicine.
Ü An effective communicator with strong relationship
management, leadership, team management and coordination skills, coupled with a
detail-oriented approach.
Academic Qualifications
Ü Fellow
of College of General Practitioners, Indian Medical Association, HQ Chennai,
2015 (Honorary).
Ü MBA (International Management) from European
University, Antwerp (Belgium) in 1997.
Ü Advanced Diploma in Hospital Administration from
Institute of Health Care Administration, Chennai, India in 1996.
Ü MBBS from Calcutta University, Kolkata, India in
1986 – ex-alumni Medical College, Bengal.
Competency matrix
Managerial
-Strategy
Planning -IT
Operations Management -Resource
Planning/ Optimisation
-Designing
Product Roadmap -Organisational
Visioning -Brand/
Image Building
-Business
Process Reengineering -Process
Set up & Management -Compliance
/ Process Controls
-Project/
Program Management -Business
Analysis -Solutions
Architecting
-Team Management -Mentoring &
Training -Best
Practices Implementation
Functional
-Software
Development -Pre-sales
Consulting & Support -Marketing
-Requirement
Analysis -User
Requirements Specifications -Key
Account Management
-Implementation
-Product
Testing -Client Support
-Product Enhancement -Technical
Troubleshooting -Quality
Assurance
Domain Expertise: Medical
& Healthcare systems, Medicine Practice, Hospital Management, Healthcare
Informatics, Health Data Science (Clinical Data Analytics), EHR Standards, 21
CFR 11, FDA regulations for Medical Devices, Functional (Healthcare)
Architecture, Digital Health, Electronic Health Records (in all aspects),
Clinical Decision Support, Evidence Based Medicine, Healthcare Semantic Content,
Knowledge Discovery in Clinical Databases, Application of Machine Learning In
Automating Care Delivery Processes, Telehealth, Personalized Medicine and
Wellness Management, SNOMED CT, LOINC, HL7 FHIR, openEHR, Information Modelling
for Semantic Interoperability, Digital Health Information Standards.
Employment Scan
Since
Sep’17 with Bhattacharyyas Clinical Records Research & Informatics LLP as
Founder & CEO,
Ü
Designing innovative EHR and Telehealth solutions.
Ü
Conducting research in clinical records and its
contents – clinical data analytics.
Ü
Capacity building in healthcare informatics.
Ü
Consulting in information modelling, data standards,
data normalisation (SNOMED CT & LOINC).
Ü
Consultant Clinical Informatics, Karkinos
Healthcare Private Limited (2021 – 2024).
Aug’10
– Aug’17 with Tata Consultancy Services as Head – Health Informatics,
Ü
Head of Health Informatics Practice.
Ü
Providing domain consultancies to both internal and
external clients.
o
Provide domain knowledge and understanding to
pre-sales and delivery team members.
o
Assist in designing proposed solutions during the RFI,
RFP and Project Bidding process to the appropriate teams.
o
Advising on eHealth and mHealth strategies.
o
Writing whitepapers on various health informatics
aspects including clinical analytics and clinical big data analytics.
o
Designing, as functional architect, EHR/EMR and
Clinical Information Systems.
o
Domain training for IT engineers.
Jan’10
to July’10 as Consultant for eHealth –
Independent
Ü
Providing consultancies in the field of eHealth in all
its aspects.
Ü
Assisting clients in the following areas on a turn-key
basis.
o
Facility Computerization – Enterprise (end-to-end)
o
Clinical Transformation (in all aspects)
o
Conducting As-Is Study, Fixing To-Be Goals and Formulating
To-Be Processes including Business Process Re-engineering
o
Software Evaluation (including verification and
validation)
o
Augmentation of current systems and Implementation of
new systems.
Since
Aug’08 as External Consultant for e-Governance in Healthcare Projects
Ü
Involved in helping in development of strategy, functional
architecture, and implementation plan for eHealth projects.
Ü
Involved in reviewing and fine-tuning the “AS-IS”,
“TO-BE Process” and RFP documents for implementation of eHealth plan.
Ü Ensuring
adherence to established standards and guidelines in the plan.
Ü Acting
as the primary eHealth Expert to the project team.
Jan’07
to Jan’10 with Karishma Software Ltd., New Delhi as Vice President (Clinical Services)
Ü
Leading the organisation to establish it as a major player
in clinical services, along with the implementation of well-defined processes
for product enhancement.
Ü
Involved in institutionalizing a clinical technology
workflow in the product line across all product verticals, with the aim of
delivering clinical information process in the healthcare IT solution.
Ü
Engaged in promoting the brand image of the
organization by projecting it as a “professional and progressive healthcare IT
company” in the market.
Ü
Have been actively supporting the team and encouraging
its growth by extending adequate mentoring support.
Ü Distinction
of successfully managing the design & development of various clinical
informatics modules, including clinical scoring, clinical guidelines, nursing
flowsheet, clinical data warehousing and data mining.
Ü Pivotal
in discharging summary
module according to openEHR specifications
Ü Introduced
RUP in the requirements analysis state and creation of SRS
Ü Successfully
enhanced testing processes
May’05 to Jan’07 with GE Healthcare, Bangalore
as Marketing Program Manager
Ü Driving
marketing initiatives in India for Clinical Information Systems, encompassing:
o
Assessment of current and future market scenarios, and
accordingly formulating marketing strategy, planning and providing requirements
for the development of new modules.
o
Designing the overall product roadmap by developing
business cases and user needs.
o
Obtaining approvals from the management for
requirements for writing high level functional designs like product
requirements for further use by analysts and designers as part of the SDLC.
Ü Handled
key projects like Centricity 8.0, EHR – AE, Centricity group of products –
mostly in areas of verification and validation as Team Leader, leading a group
of 6 software engineers and testers
Ü Contributed
to improving user requirement specifications through extensive end user consultations
as well as discussions with engineering team for the entire GE Healthcare IT
range of solutions; and also for resolving all
implementation-related issues.
Ü Liaised
with the development and testing teams for enhancing their abilities.
Ü Successfully
handled deputation to USA for six weeks in 2005 for gathering insights to the US
healthcare industry. This included visits to several health care providers across
divisions like ICU, ED and Pharmacy to complete the study of the overall US
healthcare industry.
Technical Environment: Centricity,
Perinatal (QSÔ), Periop, Intraop, Anesthesia, Laboratory
Information System (UltraÔ)
and CareCastÔ
from IDX Corporation (a recent acquisition of GE).
Dec’04 to May’05 with Oracle Corporation, Bangalore
as Senior Product Analyst
Ü Actively
contributed as Member of the Product Management Group as Senior Product Analyst
& Business Architect for Oracle
Healthcare Transaction Base (HTB), Business
Intelligence section.
Ü Served
as Product Manager (India) for Healthcare Systems, handling clinical aspects of
the application complying with HL7 V3.0 RIM messaging standards with special
emphasis on Clinical Document Architecture, Order Management and QA work
involving the use of simulated live data.
Ü Major
responsibilities included:
o
Principal business and software requirement analysis
for healthcare providers (India-based).
o
Functional requirement gathering, analysis, design and
documentation
o
Team Leader for Functional Designing
June’03 to Nov’04 with Satyam Computer Services
Ltd., Hyderabad as Asst. Consultant-VBU–HIP (Healthcare Domain Expert)
Ü Functioned
as Principal Business Analyst, Business Architect & Project Leader,
Enterprise Testing, for WEbersÔ,
a comprehensive patient administration, dental information and insurance
management system, for Willamette Dental Management Corporation, USA. The
client has around 52 dental clinics in the states of Washington, Oregon and
Idaho, USA.
Ü As
Domain Expert for healthcare provider segment, handled responsibilities in the
areas of:
o
Business and software requirement analysis for
healthcare providers.
o
Functional requirement gathering, analysis, design and
documentation for clients.
o
Software testing, as Team Leader for the effort
leading a team of 6 testers.
Ü Managed
a team of 4 for the marketing of products to clients, based in USA, the
Scandinavian Countries, and ASIA-PAC region.
Ü Generated
revenue worth USD 1 million+
Ü Undertook
mandatory study course for PMP certification from PMP authorized center.
Dec’02 to May’03 with iSOFT R&D India P Ltd.,
Chennai as Senior Clinical Analyst
Ü Acted
as Functional Design Head for LORENZO™, with active contributions towards business
and software requirement analysis for healthcare institutions.
Ü Lead
the Indian team of Functional Designer in design, documentation, liaison with
software engineers and internal customers efforts
Ü Handled
the marketing of products to clients in UK, Australia, New Zealand, and
Singapore.
Ü Merit
of contributing to product development initiatives as Domain Expert for:
o
LORENZO™ (PSP-ready PAS-EPR System) – comprehensive
patient administration and clinical data capture with analysis system. It is
primary service provider ready built specially for NHS, UK as a part of NPfIT initiative of the British Government.
o
IPM™ (Patient information Management System)–Handles admission,
discharge, transfer, etc.
o
ICM™ (iSOFT Clinical Manager)–Processes electronic
clinical encounter data capture that are rule-based and integrated care pathway
(ICP) guided.
o
IEPR™ (iSOFT Electronic Patient Record)–Web-based
electronic patient record.
o
STOCCA™-Pharmacy inventory management system.
o
APEX™-Pathology information management system.
Apr’02 to Nov’02 with Megasoft Ltd., Chennai as Manager-Solutions
(ePharma & Health Care)
Ü Provided
IT consultancy services to the healthcare industry, handling software
requirement analysis and solution architecture development and design; as well
as marketing, customer support (C & c) and account management.
Ü As
Manager, lead the team dedicated for requirements management
Ü Actively
contributed as Domain Specialist
for:
o
AcceliantÔ - 21 CFR 11 and FDA rules compliant clinical trial
management solution
o
MedStudioÔ - 21 CFR 11 and FDA rules compliant DICOM enabled
image management solution
o
Hospital Management System – ongoing project that
conforms to 45 CFR 160, 162 rules for HIPAA compliance
o
Active involvement in the HIPAA compliance initiatives
Ü Liaised
with major client, Enmed®, sponsors of Acceliant™.
Ü Identified
& developed Epidemiology department, Government of Singapore as a key
account for the organization.
Medical Experience
Apr’99 to Apr’02 with Sudisa Consultancy Services, Faridabad
as Management Consultant cum General Practitioner
Ü
Played a major role in the
design, development, implementation and training in Hospital Information
Systems and medical informatics solutions.
Ü
Carried out cost-based
analysis of various departments & historical trend analysis of patients &
service utilization.
Ü
Handled the set-up of a
telemedicine (referral) facility.
Ü
Served as Domain Expert to
a Delhi-based web-development company providing software solutions to the
healthcare industry.
Ü
Independently managed a
clinic in primary care/ general medical practice.
Feb’95 to Mar’99 with Noble Hospital, Faridabad as Medical Administrator
cum General Practitioner
Ü
Designed, developed and
implemented information systems for maintaining medical records, reporting,
inventory control and billing systems.
Dec’90 to Jan’95 with Sudisa Consultancy Services, Faridabad
as General Medical Practitioner
Ü
Contributed to the design
of medical record management systems.
Ü
Functioned as Family
practitioner, and also managed private business
(clinic) unit in all its aspects.
May’90 to Nov’90 with Holy Family Hospitals, New
Delhi as Junior Resident, Surgery
Dec’88 to Apr’90 with Sudisa Consultancy Services, Faridabad
as General Medical Practitioner
Courses
Ü Certificate Courses in Novell NetWare
Administration from DataPro, Faridabad, 1996, and
UNIX, C, and ORACLE 8.0 with Developer 2000 (forms, reports and graphics) from
Ü PMP Foundation Course as a pre-requisite for PMP
Certification, Satyam Learning Center, Hyderabad in
2004.
Ü Coursera course on Statistics and Machine Learning
in 2013.
Technical Proficiency
Ü Advanced
knowledge of SNOMED CT.
Ü Administration of PCs and LAN systems
Ü Software development in FoxPro and Dbase III+
Ü MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and
Access) and OpenOffice
Ü Programming in web-based technologies like HTML,
CSS, ASP, Java 2, JavaScript, VBScript, Perl, PHP, XML
Ü Knowledge of SQL (through PL/SQL), C, C++, Visual
Basic, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Novell NetWare networking, UNIX
Ü Working knowledge of R, Rattle (for data mining), Octave
(FOSS alternative to Matlab), Python, GNUPlot
Ü Knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP), UML modeling (business modeling and
drawing diagrams for use case, sequence, activity, object models), using
Enterprise Architect™.
Ü Abilities in writing functional design documents
(user requirements documents and software requirements specifications) as per
the Rational Unified Process (RUP).
Ü System testing like UI testing, end-to-end testing,
smoke testing, monkey testing, defect tracking using BugZilla.
Ü Exposure to:
o
Rational Rose, RequisitePro™ and Poseidon for UML.
o
Automated testing tools
like Rational TestManager, Rational Performance, and
Rational Robot.
o
Protégé – OWL designing
interface.
o
Kermanog terminology server.
Professional Affiliations
Ü Life Member, Indian Association for Medical
Informatics
Ü Life Member, Indian Medical Association
Ü Member, Medical Computer Society of India
Ü Member, Indian Medical Informatics Association
Personal Vitae
Mailing Address : House
No. 776, Sector 15, Faridabad-121007 (Haryana)