Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
CIO, Apollo Hospitals
CIO of the Year: Healthcare
Leading from the front has been his style. This has benefitted Apollo Hospitals in achieving the rare HIMSS Level 6 Healthcare IT maturity model certification. Arvind Sivaramkrishnan’s efforts have made Apollo to lead in Asia Pacific, harnessing IT in patient-care delivery. As a result of his vision and efforts, Apollo today is considered the most wired chain of digital hospitals. He is one person who looks for opportunity in every adversity – Covid being one and unleashed the complete digital transformation of Apollo Hospitals.
Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
CIO, Apollo Hospitals
Arvind Sivaramakrishnan is the CIO of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd, India and is based out Chennai, India. He is responsible for the IT strategy and implementation across the Apollo Hospitals group. Arvind has extensive experience in management consulting, architecting, and building solutions for enterprise-wide applications. He leads the digital transformation initiatives at the Apollo Hospitals Groups.
He has led Apollo Hospitals in achieving the prestigious HIMSS Level 6 Health care IT maturity model certification which is a rare maturity level attained in Asia Pacific Arvind has lead the Apollo team to be recognized with the HiMSS- Elsevier award (2013, 2014, 2016, 2018) for outstanding use of IT in patient care delivery in Asia Pacific . Arvind has led Apollo Hospitals to achive the CHiME Most Wired Digital Hospital stage 8 certification in years 2019 and 2020.
Under his leadership, Apollo Hospitals was awarded the Microsoft Health Innovation award in 2016 for the use of effective big data analytics using Microsoft solution in Infection control surveillance in health systems. His experience in the domain of health care IT has spanned geographies across the world.
Arvind holds the credentials of CHCIO certified by the College of Health Information Executives, USA as a Healthcare CIO. He currently serves as the Secretary of CHiME’s India chapter and is a member of the board of CHiME in India. He has been inducted into the CIO Hall of fame by the prestigious CIO.in magazine. In 2019, he was felicitated by CIO&Leader for Exemplary Leadership, Professional excellence and Community contribution.
Apart from ICT solutions in the Healthcare domain, Arvind has keen interest in IT solutions that aid Quality and Service excellence in service industries. Arvind lives in Chennai with his family and is a very keen Carnatic music enthusiast.