Varian Medical Systems
DIGITAL REPORT 2020
Fighting cancer with technology innovation IN ASSOCIATION WITH
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Fighting cancer with technology innovation
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Yogeshkumar Ratnakumar, Director of Business Transformation at Varian Medical Systems , on its digital approach to create a world without fear of cancer
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rawing on his 18 years’ experience within the healthcare sector and his Masters in Medical Physics, Yogeshkumar
Ratnakumar, has held various positions at Nucletron 04
and Siemens Healthineers during that time, Ratnakumar believes that navigating these different roles has given him a broad perspective of the happenings within the sector, stating “I have seen the level of interconnectivity, coordination and support required just within the departments at Varian Medical Systems to deliver the satisfying customer experiences that strengthen relationships.” As the Director of Business Transformation at Varian Medical Systems, Ratnakumar describes the company as “very unique. Varian combines the ingenuity of people with the power of data and technology to achieve our fundamental goal ‘to create a world without fear of cancer’, which I believe makes a huge difference compared to other companies.” Over the last four and a half years working at Varian Medical Systems, JUNE 2020
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“ Varian combines the ingenuity of people with the power of data and technology to achieve our fundamental goal ‘to create a world without a fear of cancer’” — Yogeshkumar Ratnakumar, Director of Business Transformation, Varian Medical Systems
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AT VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS “The technological innovation in the field of artificial intelligence (AI)
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Ratnakumar has seen the organisation
and data, has contributed to a lot of
embark on multiple strategic initia-
changes in the healthcare sector in
tives, including its transformation
the past 10 years – I would say – It has
from a radiation oncology organisa-
provided a lot of support to healthcare
tion into a complete cancer care
professionals to make informed deci-
organisation” he explains.
sions and guide them to face greater challenges with greater confidence,” comments Ratnakumar. “We innovate constantly, especially to create intelligent products, AI goes hand in hand with our digitisation and
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ADOPTING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY
monitoring and servicing of our treat-
Varian Medical Systems wants to
ment delivery platforms.
create an intelligent cancer care
Our fundamental data strategy
system by harnessing innovative
relies on an intelligent ecosystem that
technology such as AI, and machine
continuously improves the level of
learning to convert data into insights.
care clinicians provide patients. This
“We strive to bring people together
intelligence empowers them to make
around a holistic view of each
informed decisions in the fight against
patient, and to enable appropriate
cancer. We have multiple initiatives
multidisciplinary cancer care.
across the organisation all working to
In addition, we have also taken
harness data from a variety of sources
a learning ecosystem approach
that leverage machine learning and
to serve as an information bridge
AI to improve the ability to deliver
between clinics to streamline work-
extremely high quality care globally.”
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In the past five years, Ratnakumar has seen Varian Medical Systems
those actions have on our operations.” Varian Medical Systems has been
successfully transform several of its
an innovative company since its
business functions. As a result, the
founding in 1948, creating intelligent
organisation has a fantastic founda-
products to support its customer’s
tion to evolve as its customers evolve.
fight to cure cancer and reimagine
“At the root of our transformation is
patient treatment.
intense focus on what we do, why we
With this in mind Ratnakumar sees
do it the way we do, and the impact
Varian Medical Systems as a pioneer
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“ The basics of digital transformation are to be agile and adaptive to prototyping” — Yogeshkumar Ratnakumar, Director of Business Transformation, Varian Medical Systems
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Year founded
$3.2bn+ Revenue in US dollars (2019)
10,000 Number of employees
within the healthcare sector in adapting innovative technologies. “Machine learning is a key component of our strategy for facilitating innovation,� says Ratnakumar. In 2014, Varian Medical Systems was the first company to develop machine learning products for radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer. In addition, we are also using machine learning across multiple areas to drive predictive and proactive triggers to ensure smooth operations both internally and externally. Moving on to artificial intelligence he continues, “our use of this technology
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is very human centric, In 2019, we have
tasks to better place the focus
launched AI driven Ethos Radiotherapy
of people onto bigger problems.�
system, which is helping clinicians in
A STARTUP MENTALITY, CULTURAL CHANGES AND PARTNERSHIPS
the field today.� Recently We have started RPA internally for repeatable and predictable
When driving its innovation strategy,
E X E C U T I V E P R OF IL E :
Yogeshkumar Ratnakumar Title: Director of Business Transformation Industry: Medical Device
Location: Singapore 13
A result-oriented leader with strong track record in the healthcare business, having navigated through sales, marketing, strategic and integration operational roles over 18 years. Successfully utilising emerging technologies, analytics, trends and data-based decision-making skills to achieve multi-fold growth strategies across various geographies. He is a seasoned integration business architect with a proven track record of execution of strategic plans, redefining, redesigning organisational architecture and implementing best practices across the organisation. Further, he has seasoned people management skills in executing organisational transformation projects, building and developing virtual and cross functional teams and championing internal harmony among partners.
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Ratnakumar explains that Varian Medical
Reflecting on the workforce at
Systems adopts a startup mentality.
Varian Medical Systems, Ratnakumar
“The basics of digital transformation is
believes that the organisation is
to be agile and adaptive to prototyping.
blessed with people that of which
A mentality which is common among
we are proud “We have a strong
startup organisations. So, at Varian we
value system at Varian, we drive indi-
have been driving agility and prototyping
vidual connections to drive cultural
within our operations in order to be adap-
change, which is critical to adopt-
tive to achieve our core mission goals.�
ing new technologies and adapting
Helping the organisation to adopt
processes.
this mindset and drive innovation
When it comes to its Enterprise
is its people excites Ratnakumar.
application partners, Ratnakumar
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“ Our fundamental strategy is to develop an intelligent ecosystem for clinicians to continuously improve the level of care they provide” — Yogeshkumar Ratnakumar, Director of Business Transformation, Varian Medical Systems
providing different perspectives to the industry standards, as well as someone who can provide advice
highlights key components that the
on sustainable investments for solu-
organisation looks for. “The first is
tions and who can work with us to
a co-creation mindset, this is impor-
develop proof of concepts (POCs)
tant for agility and prototyping. A
as well as the final component.
co-creation mindset will coincide
Reflecting on the organisation’s
with this adaptive mindset, products
biggest strengths, Ratnakumar
like Salesforce FSL have helped
doesn’t hesitate to attribute this title
improve field service user experi-
to its people, “our people and our
ence. We also look for partners like
interconnected value system are
Accenture who can support us in
our biggest strengths. Our biggest success is the amount of lives that we have touched over the years and we won’t stop, every day we want to touch ”
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