Healthcare Industry Roundtable: How Data & AI Pave the Way for Innovation

Patrick Kovalik is an Industry Principal for the Healthcare and Life Sciences practice at Snowflake, focusing on solutions and strategies for the payer and provider segments. He has spent his career delivering innovative solutions, process improvement, and data management initiatives for data-driven business decisions. Prior to joining Snowflake, Patrick spent 10 years leading operations, data management, and analytics for the Texas health plan within a Fortune 50 managed care organization, connecting business leaders to data for improved care management.

Murali Gandhirajan is Healthcare and Life Sciences Field CTO at Snowflake, focused on helping healthcare and life sciences organizations build next generation data and analytics platforms leveraging advanced technology capabilities that solves critical problems in the industry. He has more than two decades of experience in being a trusted advisor to senior data and analytics leaders of healthcare and life sciences organizations and delivering significant business value through health data-driven insights.

Brian is a leader in Deloitte’s Healthcare AI and Data practice and has extensive experience across the healthcare ecosystem helping clients harness data as a strategic asset, establishing data governance models, intelligent analytics, and integrating AI/ML using traditional modeling along with newer GenAI capabilities to generate prescriptive / predictive analytics and automated decisioning systems to enable business and clinical insights.

He has a long history of implementing technology solutions to improve processes, reduce cost, and enable new revenue generating opportunities for his clients.  He has worked with clients to define business analytics/cloud strategy to enable critical business needs through data ingestion, transformation, and consumption frameworks.  His most recent work included helping his client generate insights for population health programs through population stratification, identifying care opportunities & gaps, and providing guided care management via patient outreach programs.

Areas of expertise include: Population Health, Value Based Care, Provider Collaboration, Stratification and Risk Modeling, Predictive Insights, Cost and Utilization Analytics, Trend Analytics, Opportunity Analysis, Clinical Analytics and Data Repositories, Care Management Analytics, and Interoperability & Mandates. 

Brian holds a Masters in Business Administration in Finance & General Management, a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science & Mathematics and is Scaled Agile Certified - SAFe 4 Agilist.