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5 ways to build healthier societies
Rather than waiting until people fall sick, we should make sure we create the right environment for people to live healthy lives.
Dr. Mehta has more than 21 years’ of experience in strategizing, planning, commissioning and operations of over 75 hospitals and healthcare systems around the world. He is conversant with the excellence of services expected in the present competitive scenario across the entire healthcare value chain. He has worked on numerous assignments to develop customized healthcare solutions to suit client needs within political, socio economic, geographic, and demographic imperatives.
During a decade long stint with Apollo Hospitals (India’s largest healthcare provider), he was instrumental in commissioning and operating the group’s hospitals in New Delhi and Colombo.
His extensive client experience, which includes some of the largest integrated health systems and payers in the Asia, Middle East and Africa has allowed him to pioneer innovative solutions that improve quality and cost for all stakeholders in the delivery system – patients, providers and payers.
He has also been advising clients in the mobile and remote healthcare space, to implement transformation of healthcare in a rapidly changing, information-intensive environment
Dr. Mehta’s views are extensively sought after by both international and domestic media on a variety of matters affecting healthcare in the subcontinent and globally. He travels and speaks extensively at leading healthcare forums and management schools across the world.
Dr. Mehta holds Master of Hospital Administration (MHA) from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India and Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Medical College, Kolkata, India.