With nearly 20 years of experience in developing and managing enterprise health information systems, Kunal has dedicated his career to improving healthcare through pragmatic innovations. As a healthcare strategist and technologist, he is passionate about driving DrFirst growth, vision, and delivery of next-generation product solutions while building greater customer advocacy through value realization.

Prior to his leadership role at DrFirst, he was at CCITI NY/CCLC Solutions (an affiliate of GNYHA), spearheading the launch of secure and interoperable solutions to improve the quality of patient safety and care while reducing the cost of transferring patients across care transitions. At New York eHealth Collaborative, a state-wide health information network, Kunal led technical vision and product direction to connect healthcare providers to share patient information securely across the state. At Healthix, Kunal was the founding member of product and technology departments to exchange health information across communities to advance patient care. At Epic, Kunal wore multiple leadership hats in R&D and was instrumental in steering various provider and pharmacy solutions, including launching a new ambulatory pharmacy product to market.

Kunal earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology and a master’s in Computer Science from University of Southern California.