Rudra Pandey and John Cassella join Rick Brutti and Steve Swartz on MYOB.
Rudra founded Deerwalk, a big data healthcare company that specializes
in converting data to information. Lately healthcare has been
in the news a lot. Rudra says that the affordable care act, has actually
been beneficial for his company, because the more people that are
insured, the bigger the industry and the more work for them.
Rudra has a unique background. He is from Nepal and went to school in
Pakistan to study engineering. After college, Rudra went back to work in
Nepal and eventually came to America to get his P.H.D in economics from
Northeastern. He stayed in America to work for Bank of America to do
Y2K consulting.
In addition to Deerwalk, Rudra runs a few charities, and is also closely associated with Friends of Maiti Nepal (http://www.friendsofmaitinepal.org)
in Boston that works to prevent human trafficking, which Rudra says is a big issues today. He has a strong drive and an entrepreneurial spirit, which he says comes from his desire to make money.
Rudra and John say that the three most important things in their
industry, are to use the cloud, work with big data and to outsource.
Sometimes outsourcing can seem intimidating, however in the long run it
can help you save money. There are not enough engineers in America to do
all of the work that needs to be done. In addition, the more you
outsource the less space you will need, so you will save rent money
there.
Deerwalk helps to form analytics to help physicians intervene and make
better decisions. They can help doctors find gaps in care and ultimately
offer better care and lower the number patients that need to stay in
hospitals, thus saving money. One of the challenges, says Ruda is you
have to be careful who you are exposing the data too. He works with a
trusted team of engineers to make sure his data that is being analyzed
is being formed into information that is passed along adequately.
Source News:
http://urbusinessnetwork.com/rudra-paney-john-cassella-deerwalk-myob-rick-brutti-steve-swartz/
