Kirtan Patel, MD

Kirtan currently serves as the Director of Medical Advising and Consulting at Lumere, a GHX company. With the help of Lumere’s analytics solutions and subject matter experts, he applies his expertise in physician preference item sourcing and project management to help health systems to reduce unwarranted variation and unnecessary costs in medical device purchasing. With a background in business administration, healthcare administration, and medicine, he is passionate about the evaluation of the management of health care systems, with emphasis on using scientific methods and evidence-based medicine and research to improve the tradeoff among quality, safety, and costs.