SUNNYVALE, Calif., & WINNIPEG, Manitoba--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dr. Navdeep Tangri, developer of the Kidney Failure Risk Equation, which uses laboratory data and demographic information to accurately predict the risk of renal failure in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), has joined the advisory board of the steadily growing healthcare-focused insights company Viewics. Viewics provides hospitals and health systems with lab-driven solutions for advanced analytics, including clinical decision support, predictive analytics, population health management, and personalized medicine.
“Dr. Tangri’s knowledge of machine learning, data science, and predictive analytics, along with his experience developing the Kidney Failure Risk Equation, are tremendous assets to us,” said Dhiren Bhatia, Viewics CEO and co-founder. “We’re honored to have him join our board and lend his expertise to drive measurable value for our customers.”
Dr. Tangri is a medical researcher in the Chronic Disease Innovation Center at Seven Oaks General Hospital and an associate professor in the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine. His research program focuses on improving clinical decision making for patients with advanced CKD. Dr. Tangri has published more than 100 papers and presented at multiple national and international scientific meetings. He serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Kidney Disease and the Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, and is Section Editor for the Epidemiology and Prevention Issue of Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension. He has active grants from the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Kidney Foundation of Canada, and the Manitoba Health Research Council.
“For too many healthcare companies and providers, the kind of intelligence solution that Viewics provides is missing right now,” said Dr. Tangri. “My goal is for them to see Viewics as an essential component of their lab information systems and electronic health records.”
Dr. Tangri will be participating in a free, Viewics-sponsored webinar hosted by Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare on Tuesday, May 10. He will discuss the prevalence of chronic kidney disease, and how the Kidney Failure Risk Equation can revolutionize CKD care and save hospitals millions of dollars per year. For full details about the event and to register, click here [http://goo.gl/n3t7R3].
Viewics’ advisory board is composed of diagnostics and bioinformatics leaders, including Paul Epner, Executive Vice President and Founding Director of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine and Immediate Past President of the Clinical Laboratory Management Association; Dennis Weissman, President of Weissman & Associates and founder of G2 Intelligence; and Isaac Kohane, inaugural Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, among others. The complete list and bios can be found here [https://viewics.com/company/advisors/].
About Viewics
Viewics provides unprecedented access to disparate healthcare data to surface actionable intelligence and empower data-driven decision-making. Through expertise and focus on healthcare analytics, Viewics delivers proprietary, best-in-class technology for data extraction, cleansing, and transformation to quickly unlock insights that deliver invaluable clinical and financial impact, while reducing burden on IT. For more information, visit viewics.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
