[1] In January 2005, the CEO of an Indian-based, German multinational corporation, Venkat Changavalli, invited Ramalinga Raju, the Chairman of Satyam Computer Services at the time, to be the chief guest at a business conference.
[1] After the conference, Raju proposed creating an emergency medical services organization for India, and the Satyam Foundation began initial its operations.
[11] By 2017, GVK EMRI had expanded to 14 states and partnered with Robert Bosch GmbH to improve their technology usage.
[16] In a study published in Health Affairs in 2016, research conducted in two Indian states where GVK EMRI operates demonstrated their service helped reduce neonatal and infant mortality.
[15] GVK EMRI has partnered with Stanford Medicine faculty to conduct needs assessments and improve the quality of emergency care,[15][21] as well as faculty from Michigan Medicine to conduct trainings of laypeople and develop specific trauma resuscitation protocols, while training educators and researching emergency stabilization centers.