K. R. Prabha (Prabha): Top International Executive & Consultant in the healthcare ecosystem | Vice President, Strategy, Growth & Innovation, Optum; Board Chair, Washington Global Health A

K. R. Prabha (Prabha): Top International Executive & Consultant in the healthcare ecosystem | Vice President, Strategy, Growth & Innovation, Optum; Board Chair, Washington Global Health A

• K. R. Prabha (Prabha) brings nearly 25 years of international executive and consulting experience in the healthcare ecosystem. 

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The healthcare industry (also called the medical industry or health economy) is an aggregation and integration of sectors within the economic system that provides goods and services to treat patients with curative, preventive, rehabilitative, and palliative care. It includes the generation and commercialization of goods and services lending themselves to maintaining and re-establishing health.

The modern healthcare industry includes three essential branches which are services, products, and finance, and may be divided into many sectors and categories and depends on the interdisciplinary teams of trained professionals and paraprofessionals to meet the health needs of individuals and populations.

00:30- About KR Prabha

• K. R. Prabha (Prabha) brings nearly 25 years of international executive and consulting experience in the healthcare ecosystem. 
• Prabha brings an international view, engineering mindset, and empathetic design when solving healthcare challenges having lived and worked in the U.S., Canada, and India. 
• In addition to providing healthcare expertise, Prabha helps organizations identify best practices to adopt from other industries based on her experiences in technology, strategy, and operations.
• Prabha is known for building high-performing teams committed to a shared vision. 
• She enjoys publishing and speaking on healthcare challenges and innovative solutions.

01:21- Two or three inflection points that made you the marvelous person that you are today

• When I was 10, I watched an open heart and an open brain surgery on TV in India and I was fascinated.
• There are models from a global health standpoint, what can we bring from places like India and Africa, and Asia to the US as we look at our domestic health care? The US is so forward-thinking in terms of technology, and innovation. How can we make them accessible to other parts of the world? 
• I was on a project in Ohio, and it was in a hospital, it serves the indigent population. I was watching a cardiovascular procedure being done, and they call the code blue. 

• K. R. Prabha (Prabha) brings nearly 25 years of international executive and consulting experience in the healthcare ecosystem. 
• Prabha brings an international view, engineering mindset, and empathetic design when solving healthcare challenges having lived and worked in the U.S., Canada, and India. 
• In addition to providing healthcare expertise, Prabha helps organizations identify best practices to adopt from other industries based on her experiences in technology, strategy, and operations.
• Prabha is known for building high-performing teams committed to a shared vision. 
• She enjoys publishing and speaking on healthcare challenges and innovative solutions.