Prasanna Ganesan is EVP and Chief Product Officer at Machinify, a leading healthcare intelligence company with expertise across the payment continuum. Prasanna brings more than 20 years of experience as a technology company founder, scaling successful teams to major market acquisitions. In 2005, he co-founded VUDU which was acquired by Walmart in 2010. In 2016, he founded Machinify, building its data mining capabilities until merging with Apixio’s payment integrity business, VARIS, and The Rawlings Group. He holds over 30 patents and received the 2013 Home Entertainment Visionary award as well as the President of India Gold Medal for his academic accomplishments. Prasanna earned a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B. Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
As our healthcare system has evolved to provide higher quality care to more — and increasingly clinically complicated — people, the disconnect between what’s billed, what’s documented, and what’s actually true has deepened.