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Damo Consulting - The Big Unlock - Podcast - Ep 176 - Inderpal Kohli
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In this episode, Inderpal Kohli, VP of IT and Chief Information Officer at Englewood Health, shares his vision for scalable digital health transformation. He outlines a proven framework focused on patient engagement, clinically integrated care, and remote patient monitoring—strategies that have already driven an 18–20% increase in online scheduling and improved outcomes in preventive care campaigns.

Inderpal reflects on how a chance project in biomedical informatics sparked his passion for digital transformation, leading to pioneering work in digital pathology, remote monitoring, and digital front door solutions. He explores the promise of ambient documentation in reducing clinician burden and enhancing satisfaction, and addresses the persistent challenge of integrating EHR systems with third-party tools—stressing the importance of seamless integration for meaningful impact.

He also discusses the potential of digital twins as a game-changer, shares lessons on building agile, consumer-focused digital teams, and weighs in on how GenAI and agentic automation are poised to reshape care delivery. Take a listen.

About Our Guest

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Inderpal Kohli is a mission-driven CIO with over 25 years of experience transforming complex healthcare systems through digital innovation, AI enablement, and operational excellence. Kohli has extensive expertise in strategic planning and deploying enterprise information systems to support centralized clinical and business operations. As Vice President of IT and Chief Information Officer at Englewood Health, he led all technology aspects, guiding digital and AI transformation strategies for the health system, including its acute care hospital, a network of over 100 locations, and more than 700 physicians in the network, all connected through a single electronic medical record system. Leading a high-performing team of over 160 members and managing a $50 million budget, significant initiatives at Englewood include a digital transformation strategy and execution, an enterprise cybersecurity program, the deployment of the first in any hospital, a unified communications architecture on the Zoom platform, the expansion and enhancement of Epic, and a cloud-based Enterprise Imaging solution.

Before his tenure at Englewood, Kohli was an assistant vice president at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. There, he was responsible for overseeing the implementation of various enterprise information systems, including Epic. Furthermore, Kohli played a key role in pioneering an advanced digital pathology solution that enabled integrated diagnostics by capturing, sharing, and correlating high-resolution digital images of glass laboratory slides—marking a first in the country.

Kohli also served as the information systems manager at Columbia University Medical Center. During this time, he played a key role in designing and developing a flexible information infrastructure focused on clinical research, including an epidemiological study that contributed to one of the largest genetic material databases in the country.

Beyond his professional achievements, Kohli actively participates in the healthcare community as a sought-after panelist and speaker at various healthcare and technology conferences. He is also a prolific contributor to print and digital media outlets. He was recently honored with the 2024 NJBIZ Leaders in Digital Technology Award. 

Kohli holds a master's degree in Technology Management from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from India. His dedication to education is evident through over a decade of teaching experience at the master's level. At Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, he led a curriculum focused on healthcare informatics, passing on his extensive knowledge to the next generation of IT professionals.

 

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About the Host

Rohit Mahajan is an entrepreneur and a leader in the information technology and software industry. His focus lies in the field of artificial intelligence and digital transformation. He has also written a book on Quantum Care, A Deep Dive into AI for Health Delivery and Research that has been published and has been trending #1 in several categories on Amazon.​

Rohit is skilled in business and IT  strategy, M&A, Sales & Marketing and Global Delivery. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering, is a  Wharton School Fellow and a graduate from the Harvard Business School. ​

​Rohit is the CEO of Damo, Managing Partner and CEO of BigRio, the President at Citadel Discovery, Advisor at CarTwin, Managing Partner at C2R Tech, and Founder at BetterLungs. He has previously also worked with IBM and Wipro. He completed his executive education programs in AI in Business and Healthcare from MIT Sloan, MIT CSAIL and Harvard School of Public Health. He has completed  the Global Healthcare Leaders Program from Harvard Medical School.

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About the Legend

Paddy was the co-author of Healthcare Digital Transformation – How Consumerism, Technology and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future (Taylor &  Francis, Aug 2020), along with Edward W. Marx. Paddy was also the author of the best-selling book The Big Unlock – Harnessing Data and Growing Digital Health Businesses in a Value-based Care Era (Archway Publishing, 2017). He was the host of the highly subscribed The Big Unlock podcast on digital transformation in healthcare featuring C-level executives from the healthcare and technology sectors. He was widely published and had a by-lined column in CIO Magazine and other respected industry publications.