Janak Joshi
NAD Partners Executive Board Member
Janak leads technology and corporate strategy for lifeIMAGE, one of the largest healthcare exchanges supporting hundreds of Academic Medical Centers, biotech companies and medical device manufacturer globally. In this capacity, he is responsible for bringing novel solutions spanning trauma to in-patient to ambulatory to long term care facilities that cut across institutional boundaries, vendor systems and medical devices with specific focus on patient safety, guideline compliance, access and coordination and benefit management.
As a long time member of CommonWell and CareEquality, Janak chairs the imaging workgroup at CommonWell responsible for establishing patient centric use cases and standards across the U.S. and European vendor ecosystem. He is responsible for contributing to CommonWell’s strategy and business development.
In addition, he was recently appointed by Brandeis University on the advisory board for healthcare analytics and innovation for their graduate school. And serves as the board advisor for Bentley University’s venture fund investing in healthcare startups. He continues to mentor startups and champions various pitch competitions in the Boston area.
Prior to lifeIMAGE, Janak lead the strategy and development for health economics and outcomes research at Deloitte’s Life Sciences and Healthcare practice across U.S. and Europe. His work with providers, payers, pharmaceuticals, government and regulatory bodies and medical device firms around data sharing, patient consents, data governance and real world evidence solutions continues to be a mandate across the industry. His focus was to establish a common information exchange and evidence management framework to help mature the quality and consistency of insights and outcomes for acute and chronic conditions.
Before Cerner Corporations acquisition of Siemens Healthcare, Janak was leading product development and market strategy for Siemens’ information exchange platform to empower all HIT vendors to interoperate with hospital and payer entities globally. In this role, he also co-chaired the HL/7 workgroup representing Siemens in the United States focusing in lab and imaging systems.
Janak has been a long time entrepreneur in the Boston area, serving as a C level executive at Generation Health that built one of U.S.’s first genetic benefit management (GBM) program and eventually sold to CVS Caremark in 2011. This was one of the broadest lab, logistics and in-store point of care network in the genetic testing space focusing on cardiology, oncology and HIV.
In early healthcare career, Janak worked at Harvard University and Partners Healthcare System, working with industry leaders to set a best practice in ambulatory EMR workflows and research innovation.
He has served in the U.S. Military with the search & Rescue Unit with USAF Squadron 1001st in Pennsylvania and remains engaged in a training capacity with existing reserve units with the U.S. Army and USAF.
Janak holds a MBA from Bentley University, Bachelors in Economics and Accounting from University of Bombay and various certifications in the IT space.
