Webinar: Turning data into better patient care

Apollo Hospitals and Apollo eACCESS TeleICU Service, India

Dr Sai Praveen Haranath

Senior Consultant, Pulmonology and Critical Care; Medical Director

Dr. Sai Praveen Haranath is a US board-certified pulmonary and critical care physician with over two decades of international clinical, academic, and leadership experience. Based at Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad, India, he serves as Senior Consultant in Pulmonary and Critical Care, Medical Director of Apollo eACCESS TeleICU, and Senior Vice President for Medical and Strategy at Apollo Health Axis—the new division of Apollo Hospitals Group focused on becoming the provider’s provider partner . In these roles, he has helped pioneer scalable, tech-enabled healthcare models that bridge the gap between urban tertiary centers and underserved communities across India and beyond.

After graduating from Madras Medical College, Dr. Haranath completed his residency and fellowship training in the United States, where he became board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine. He also earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree and remains actively involved in global professional societies. He is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) and previously served on its Board of Regents.

Returning to India in 2011, Dr. Haranath helped launch and scale Apollo eACCESS, a teleICU service that has supported hundreds of beds across multiple states in India and several international locations.  Dr Sai is intricately involved in Apollo Health Axis as it evolves into a Global Capability Center (GCC) for healthcare, offering virtual nursing, remote clinical intelligence, AI-enabled monitoring, and back-end clinical services for partners globally including across Asia, the Middle East, and the United States.

Dr. Haranath’s thought leadership in digital health has been recognized globally. He was invited to speak at TEDx in 2018 on the future of remote critical care and addressed the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) Confederation in 2021 on virtual ICU models. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he played a pivotal role in remote patient management, ventilator resource planning, and critical care staffing strategies for Apollo’s national response.

He is Chair of the Virtual Care Special Interest Group (SIG) at the International Hospital Federation (IHF), where he leads initiatives on standardizing virtual care delivery, facilitating cross-border clinical collaboration, and building trust in technology-driven healthcare systems. In this role, he has convened global experts to draft consensus recommendations and design capacity-building workshops, including a high-impact session at the upcoming IHF World Hospital Congress.

A strong advocate for ethical, evidence-based care and system transformation, Dr. Haranath contributes to several peer-reviewed publications and multinational research initiatives. His academic work spans topics such as telecritical care best practices, sepsis outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, and AI-supported mortality prediction. He has co-authored major studies in journals like Critical Care Medicine, Neurology India, and Apollo Medicine .

Beyond research and strategy, he actively mentors healthtech startups, advises on AI regulation and clinical workflow integration, and promotes tobacco cessation efforts, having been selected for the Johns Hopkins Global Tobacco Control Leadership Program in 2016. His guiding principle is to create sustainable, equitable, and human-centered healthcare models that harness the best of clinical expertise and digital innovation. Virtual Care is care too - allowing healthcare to be available for everyone , anytime and everywhere.

Medical Informatics Corp

Bikram Day

Director of Informatics

Bikram Day is currently the Director of Informatics at Medical Informatics Corp. Bikram's vision for Clinical Informatics is transforming healthcare through the power of time-series physiological data. He specializes in the Informatics of patient-connected medical device data-pipelines: the data governance and cybersecurity controls to securely enable new machine learning and AI tools that can improve patient monitoring and care delivery. Bikram's work focuses on capturing detailed physiological data to gain deep insights into how human body systems function and anticipate potential complications. He's also instrumental in developing and guiding industry standards for medical device interoperability through his involvement with standards organizations. Bikram is an External Advisory Board member and Affiliate Faculty at the Division of Informatics, Clinical Epidemiology and Translational Data Science, Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU). He also serves as a Board Member for the Society for Information Management (SIM) Portland Chapter.

Convatec, UK

Judith Hargreaves

Director, Global Market Access

Judith joined Convatec in August 2025, bringing 30 years’ experience within the Medical Device Industry, working with companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, 3M and Molnlycke Healthcare. Judith has a background in nursing, where she specialised in caring for patients with long-term conditions including wound care and she holds qualifications in tissue viability.

Over the last 20 years, Judith has gained experience create practical health economic tools as well as complex cost-effective models to support Global reimbursement applications. She has also developed Government Affairs campaigns, creating manifesto and positioning papers to support lobbying activities in EU and USA.

Judith has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications, most recently on Healthcare Staff Wellbeing as part of building Sustainable Healthcare Systems and is passionate about protecting both healthcare provision and the planet for future generations.

Judith also has an MBA and Black Belt Six Sigma qualification, and for several years she acted as an external advisor for NICE NHS Evidence, providing advice on continuous improvement projects. She is also a member of several Global Health Economics, Government Affairs and Market Access platforms.

Medtronic

Jason Case

Vice President, Acute Care and Monitoring, R&D

Jason Case currently serves as Vice President of Research and Development within Medtronic's Acute Care and Monitoring operating unit.

With more than two decades in the medical device industry, Jason has had the opportunity to research, develp, market and sell innovative diagnostic and therapeutic systems and devices in interventional cardiology, interventional oncology, acute care and digital health.

An intrapreneur, he currently enjoys spending time driving disruptive digital innovation from within Medtronic.