Healthcare Tech Leader Priyanka Upendra Joins Asimily as Senior Director of Customer Success

Priyanka Upendra (Priya) brings unique expertise across medical device cybersecurity, patient safety, quality and compliance, and development of healthcare technology management programs

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Asimily, a leading provider of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) risk management platform, today announced that Priyanka Upendra (Priya) has joined the company as its Senior Director of Customer Success. An experienced and innovative healthcare technology management (HTM) leader, Priya will facilitate the use of Asimily’s risk management platform and ensure continuous improvement in process, product, analytics, and implementation.

Asimily has built an industry-leading IoMT risk remediation and operations platform that secures medical and IoT devices in an efficient manner. With the largest knowledgebase of IoMT and security protocols, Asimily inventories and classifies every device across the healthcare organization, connected and stand-alone.

“Priya brings an unmatched track record when it comes to aligning healthcare technology with IoMT security, regulatory compliance and patient safety, and overall delivering a superior customer experience,” said Shankar Somasundaram, CEO, Asimily. “As more healthcare organizations turn to Asimily’s IoMT risk remediation and operations platform, Priya’s expertise across all aspects of the healthcare technology and security ecosystem will help drive our next growth phase.”

Priya joins Asimily with over 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry and as a steadfast advocate for patient safety and innovation. She served as a Compliance Program Director at Banner Health, Compliance Manager at Intermountain Healthcare, and several HTM/ clinical engineering (CE) roles at Stanford Health Care, Stanford Children’s Health, and Stanford University.

Priya has been a three-time award recipient from AAMI and its active member of several committees, including the Technology Management Executive Council. In 2020, she received the ACCE Professional Achievement in Technology award for her contributions to the HTM/CE profession and won the doctoral student paper for maximizing efficiency in HTM/CE workflows using lean and six sigma. She is the President-Elect of ACCE and a liaison to its membership committee; and a steering committee member of HTA, an alliance between AAMI, ACCE, and HIMSS. She is a member of H-ISAC and participates in its MDSISC advisory group and PSIC.

About Asimily

Asimily has built an industry-leading Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) risk management platform that secures medical and the IoT Devices. With the largest knowledgebase of IoMT and security protocols, Asimily inventories and classifies every device across the healthcare organization, connected and stand-alone. Asimily identifies and prioritizes vulnerabilities to provide actionable intelligence across the life cycle. Because risk assessment – and threats – are not a static target, Asimily monitors the healthcare organizations’ devices, detects anomalous behavior, and alerts operators to remediate the identified anomalies. With secure medical and IoT devices, healthcare organizations can keep patients, providers, assets, and resources safe and reliable. For more information on Asimily, visit https://www.asimily.com/.