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Vikas Kharbanda

Partner

Head, Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice, Middle East

Vikas advises leading players in the Healthcare sector on growth strategies, operational effectiveness and digital transformations.

Areas of Focus

Education

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Master Business of Administration
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Bachelor of Technology

Past Experience

IBM Global Business Services
Senior Manager, Strategy & Transformation Practice

Vikas is a Partner with Arthur D. Little, based in Dubai, and leads the Healthcare & Life Sciences practice in the Middle East.

Over the past few years, Vikas has been working with several leading Healthcare service providers in the Middle East and Asia on their growth and expansion strategies.

In his current and previous roles, Vikas has also worked with Hospital operators on improving their operations effectiveness while enhancing patient experience.

Vikas also works extensively with clients, advising them in their digitalization strategies and leveraging technology to improve both patient experiences and operational effectiveness.

Vikas has been the author of several articles on diverse topics related to digitalization in Healthcare & the life sciences industry and has presented at several industry events.

Advancing biotechnology & genomics in Saudi Arabia
Healthcare & life sciences
Advancing biotechnology & genomics in Saudi Arabia
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Catalyzing digital health in India
Healthcare & life sciences
Catalyzing digital health in India
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A bold vision for India’s digital health
Healthcare & life sciences
A bold vision for India’s digital health
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Healthcare & life sciences
Building the next generation of emergency care systems
Vikas Kharbanda, Dhiraj Joshi, Samir Imran
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Healthcare & life sciences
Pursuing excellence: What’s next for finance in healthcare?
Vikas Kharbanda, Emmanuel Aisabokhae
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Healthcare & life sciences
Managing competition, price and access
Craig Wylie, Vikas Kharbanda, Dhiraj Joshi
High medicine prices impose a burden on national healthcare systems, where pharmaceuticals account for a significant share of spending, especially for countries in the early stages of maturity in the pharma sector. Competition authorities have expressed concerns that access to affordable, innovative drugs may be at risk due to high prices, market withdrawals or other business strategies, along with national governments’ limited bargaining power against pharma companies.
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Healthcare & life sciences
Hospital Information Systems for the digitally-enabled era
Vikas Kharbanda, Samir Imran
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Healthcare & life sciences
Ambulance services – Optimizing operations
Vikas Kharbanda
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Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
Beyond traditional network & IT organizations
Dr. Karim Taga, Vikas Kharbanda, Arvind Rajeswaran
With the onset of new technologies such as 5G, NFV and IoT, telecom executives are increasingly realizing that transformation of technology organization is imminent. The CTO office is at the center of this and needs to rethink its strategic roadmap and operating model. In this paper, we assess how a gradual transformation from traditional IT/network units to a more functional organization will address several of the legacy constraints in adopting new technologies.
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Transforming healthcare – How curative therapies will disrupt the market
Craig Wylie, Rebecka Axelsson Wadman, Vikas Kharbanda, Dr. Ulrica Sehlstedt
The shift to curative treatments promises to transform the entire healthcare ecosystem. Patients whose conditions were previously managed through ongoing, long-term medication can now be cured through specific courses of treatment. This transforms their lives – but, as this article explains, it also has a disruptive effect on the wider market, shifting payers’ expenditure, increasing the importance of first-mover advantage for pharmaceutical companies, and changing care models for healthcare providers.
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Healthcare & life sciences
Building the Smart Hospital Agenda
Vikas Kharbanda, Dr. Ulrica Sehlstedt, Johan Treutiger
A number of factors have been contributing to a rapid change in care delivery models world-wide. Increasing cost of care, need to improve access to care, inherent complexity in treatment options and increasing involvement of patients in the care delivery cycles - all of these factors have fostered an environment where hospitals or other care delivery institutions have started shifting focus from treating episodes to managing overall health of patients, while focusing on overall value of care rather than efficiency.
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Healthcare & life sciences
Succeeding with Digital Health
Vikas Kharbanda
Globally the market for digital health is expected to double its volume within the next three years and by 2020 to surpass USD 200 bn. The growing mobile health market is one of the main contributors to this development; its mobile solutions, applications and services will generate an increase in adjacent markets such as wireless network technologies, sensors and devices.
Find out more

Vikas is a Partner with Arthur D. Little, based in Dubai, and leads the Healthcare & Life Sciences practice in the Middle East.

Over the past few years, Vikas has been working with several leading Healthcare service providers in the Middle East and Asia on their growth and expansion strategies.

In his current and previous roles, Vikas has also worked with Hospital operators on improving their operations effectiveness while enhancing patient experience.

Vikas also works extensively with clients, advising them in their digitalization strategies and leveraging technology to improve both patient experiences and operational effectiveness.

Vikas has been the author of several articles on diverse topics related to digitalization in Healthcare & the life sciences industry and has presented at several industry events.

Advancing biotechnology & genomics in Saudi Arabia
Healthcare & life sciences
Advancing biotechnology & genomics in Saudi Arabia
Find out more
Catalyzing digital health in India
Healthcare & life sciences
Catalyzing digital health in India
Find out more
A bold vision for India’s digital health
Healthcare & life sciences
A bold vision for India’s digital health
Find out more
Healthcare & life sciences
Building the next generation of emergency care systems
Vikas Kharbanda, Dhiraj Joshi, Samir Imran
Find out more
Healthcare & life sciences
Pursuing excellence: What’s next for finance in healthcare?
Vikas Kharbanda, Emmanuel Aisabokhae
Find out more
Healthcare & life sciences
Managing competition, price and access
Craig Wylie, Vikas Kharbanda, Dhiraj Joshi
High medicine prices impose a burden on national healthcare systems, where pharmaceuticals account for a significant share of spending, especially for countries in the early stages of maturity in the pharma sector. Competition authorities have expressed concerns that access to affordable, innovative drugs may be at risk due to high prices, market withdrawals or other business strategies, along with national governments’ limited bargaining power against pharma companies.
Find out more
Healthcare & life sciences
Hospital Information Systems for the digitally-enabled era
Vikas Kharbanda, Samir Imran
Find out more
Healthcare & life sciences
Ambulance services – Optimizing operations
Vikas Kharbanda
Find out more
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
Beyond traditional network & IT organizations
Dr. Karim Taga, Vikas Kharbanda, Arvind Rajeswaran
With the onset of new technologies such as 5G, NFV and IoT, telecom executives are increasingly realizing that transformation of technology organization is imminent. The CTO office is at the center of this and needs to rethink its strategic roadmap and operating model. In this paper, we assess how a gradual transformation from traditional IT/network units to a more functional organization will address several of the legacy constraints in adopting new technologies.
Find out more
Transforming healthcare – How curative therapies will disrupt the market
Craig Wylie, Rebecka Axelsson Wadman, Vikas Kharbanda, Dr. Ulrica Sehlstedt
The shift to curative treatments promises to transform the entire healthcare ecosystem. Patients whose conditions were previously managed through ongoing, long-term medication can now be cured through specific courses of treatment. This transforms their lives – but, as this article explains, it also has a disruptive effect on the wider market, shifting payers’ expenditure, increasing the importance of first-mover advantage for pharmaceutical companies, and changing care models for healthcare providers.
Find out more
Healthcare & life sciences
Building the Smart Hospital Agenda
Vikas Kharbanda, Dr. Ulrica Sehlstedt, Johan Treutiger
A number of factors have been contributing to a rapid change in care delivery models world-wide. Increasing cost of care, need to improve access to care, inherent complexity in treatment options and increasing involvement of patients in the care delivery cycles - all of these factors have fostered an environment where hospitals or other care delivery institutions have started shifting focus from treating episodes to managing overall health of patients, while focusing on overall value of care rather than efficiency.
Find out more
Healthcare & life sciences
Succeeding with Digital Health
Vikas Kharbanda
Globally the market for digital health is expected to double its volume within the next three years and by 2020 to surpass USD 200 bn. The growing mobile health market is one of the main contributors to this development; its mobile solutions, applications and services will generate an increase in adjacent markets such as wireless network technologies, sensors and devices.
Find out more

More About Vikas
  • Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
    Master Business of Administration
  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
    Bachelor of Technology
  • IBM Global Business Services
    Senior Manager, Strategy & Transformation Practice