Naresh Sundar Rajan, M.S., Ph.D.
Role:
Chief Executive Officer
Neantix Inc.
HITAC Member Terms:
Term 1: 1/2023 – 12/2025
Dr. Naresh Sundar Rajan is a distinguished expert in health data modernization, standards, and interoperability with over a decade of experience in health information technology. Currently, Dr. Rajan serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Neantix, a firm committed to revolutionizing healthcare and business through innovative data solutions. He also holds a position as an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health. Additionally, he served as the Chairperson of the Technical Architecture Subcommittee for the Prescription Monitoring Information eXchange (PMIX) Standards Organization's Technical Architecture Committee. He also served on the Community Advisory Board for the Great Plains IDeA Clinical and Translational Research. Dr. Rajan served as HIE representative with the Gravity Project for the development of social determinants of health standards. He also participated in Project US@, which aimed at developing standards for United States address metadata for patient matching. Rajan led ONC's pilot project in U.S. standards for address matching to enhance open-source patient-matching algorithms and develop standard metrics to compare across multiple standards.
Prior to his role at Neantix, Dr. Rajan served as Chief Data Officer at CyncHealth, where he led a team focused on data democratization, analytics delivery, health data infrastructure, interoperability, patient matching, and improving health data quality. He played a pivotal role in architecting and deploying state-wide interoperable systems in Nebraska and Iowa, including a comprehensive COVID-19 contact tracing solution and machine-learning models for predicting disease trajectories.
Dr. Rajan began his career as a senior health informaticist for the State of Utah. In this capacity, he developed analytical infrastructure for prescriber practices information and led analytics operations for the Utah Department of Health Violence and Injury Prevention Program. As Project Director and Co-Investigator for a Bureau of Justice Assistance grant, he integrated prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) data into Utah's analytical infrastructure. His early career included serving as a research developer at the University of Utah's Center for Clinical and Translational Science, where he published scholarly articles on scalable data quality assessment frameworks, patient matching, opioid data democratization, and FAIR principles-based Learning Health Systems. Dr. Rajan holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Utah, a master’s degree in computer science from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a bachelor’s degree in bioinformatics. Throughout his career, Dr. Rajan has demonstrated a commitment to advancing health information technology and improving healthcare outcomes through data-driven solutions and interoperable systems.