IBM Veteran Joins Decision Resources

Healthcare focused research and data provider Decision Resources Group (DRG) has appointed former IBM exec Girish Venkatachaliah as its new Chief Product & Technology Officer, leading continued development of AI-enabled integrated solutions.

DRG offers expert consultation and analysis enhanced by machine learning and AI, employing experts spanning healthcare markets, disease areas and data science disciplines to provide a comprehensive view of patient access, and payer and health system dynamics at local levels for the global healthcare ecosystem.

Venkatachaliah (pictured) joins from medical software and services provider athenahealth where he was Vice President of Data Strategy, Analytics and AI/ML. Before this spent seventeen years in a number of executive roles in data, analytics and AI/ML at IBM, most recently as VP of Product Development, with a remit including Watson Machine Learning and persistence in the Watson Data Platform.

Chief Executive Vivek Sharma comments: 'The addition of Girish's extensive experience in Data and AI, coupled with his strong business leadership and strategic acumen, will be critical to our next level of success. His deep knowledge of leading methods to solve healthcare challenges will serve to enhance our vision of advancing a global healthcare industry in which all organizations are insights and intelligence enabled. Together with our customers, we can speed up innovative treatments and better care'.

The Group is a subsidiary of Piramal Enterprises Ltd. and is online at www.decisionresourcesgroup.com .