Harris appoints new leader of health care business

Harris Corp. has named Vishal Agrawal, M.D., president of Harris Healthcare Solutions, reporting to James Morris, president of Harris Integrated Network Solutions group.

Healthcare Solutions is a clinical integration solutions business that offers interoperability solutions, including information technology infrastructure and management, clinical workflow and analytics, health information exchange and imaging.

Agrawal joins Harris from McKinsey and Co., where he served as a partner and leader in the company’s North America Healthcare Systems and Services practice. While he was there, he expanded the practice’s impact across public-sector and military healthcare, including successfully developing strategies to drive health system performance improvements, Harris said.

Before McKinsey, Agrawal was a research fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and at the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry and a master’s degree in molecular biophysics from Yale University, and a medical doctorate degree from Yale University School of Medicine, Harris said.