Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan is the CIO of Karkinos Healthcare based in India. He holds the responsibility to drive IT strategy and digital transformation and design the digital roadmap of the company. Karkinos Healthcare is a specialist end-to-end technology-driven oncology-focused managed healthcare platform. Prior to his current assignment, Arvind was the CIO at Apollo Hospitals and was responsible for the IT strategy, digital transformation initiatives, and implementation across the Apollo Hospitals group. Arvind has extensive experience in management consulting, architecting, and building solutions for enterprise-wide applications.

In 2022, he led Apollo Hospitals in achieving the prestigious HIMSS Level 6 Health care IT maturity model certification which is a rare maturity level attained in the Asia Pacific region. Arvind has led Apollo Hospitals to achieve the CHiME Most Wired Digital Hospital stage 9 for both Acute and Ambulatory care settings in 2021 and Stage 8 certification in the prior years of 2019 and 2020. His experience in the domain of health care IT has spanned geographies across the world. Arvind holds the credentials of CHCIO certified by the College of Health Information Executives, USA as a Healthcare CIO.

He currently serves as the Secretary of CHiME’s India chapter and is a member of the board of CHiME in India. He has been inducted into the CIO Hall of fame by the prestigious CIO.in magazine. In 2019, he was felicitated by CIO & Leader for Exemplary Leadership, Professional excellence, and Community contribution. He was recognized as the CIO of the year in 2022 by the CEO’s Association for Inclusive India – SKOCH Group. Apart from ICT solutions in the Healthcare domain, Arvind has a keen interest in IT solutions that aid Quality and Service excellence in service industries.