With a career spanning over thirty years in the healthcare industry, Dr. Ramesh Sachdeva has a wealth of experience as a healthcare executive and practitioner. Dr. Ramesh Sachdeva also has an extensive educational background, possessing a juris doctorate, MBA, DBA, and a PhD with a focus in health policy management. Currently, Dr. Sachdeva is the associate executive director at the American Academy of Pediatrics, where his responsibilities include aligning quality efforts with Health Information Technology.

Health Information Technology, or HIT, is a general term that covers a broad range of new technology used to support the application of healthcare and to store health information. Commonly used by health care providers and companies, HIT is also useful to patients to help with communication and personal tracking of health status. Some examples of HIT are:
- Electronic Health Records, used to store and securely share personal health data
- Personal Health Records, similar to electronic health records but the individual owner controls the information in the record
- Personal health tools such as smartphone apps and fitness trackers like pedometers
- Online and web based tools and communities