Martin Kohn

Dr. Martin Kohn is an experienced consultant and strategist in the use of healthcare data for clinical decision support and health policy development, aiding organizations preparing for the transformation of healthcare. His varied background provides the skills to position organizations to effectively use technology in healthcare.

He was Chief Medical Scientist at Sentrian. His research work includes healthcare population analytics and the role of expert systems in the clinical decision process. Dr. Kohn is a board-certified emergency physician with over 30 years of hospital-based practice and management experience. He is an alumnus of MIT, Harvard Medical School and NYU, and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American College of Physician Executives. He is board certified in Clinical Informatics through the American Board of Preventive Medicine. Dr. Kohn has published multiple articles and book chapters on clinical, technical and management subjects.

Prior to joining Sentrian, Dr. Kohn was the Chief Medical Scientist for Care Delivery Systems in IBM Research where he led IBM’s support for the transformation of healthcare. He speaks frequently on the issues of healthcare transformation, the role of information technology, the Patient Centered Medical Home and clinical decision support. Dr. Kohn was previously in IBM Healthcare Strategy and Change, which helped healthcare systems and clinicians optimize process and make best use of health information technology.

His extended training and experience in health care management, policy and operations, as well as his background as a systems engineer, enable him to communicate with all stakeholder groups. He has had major roles in addressing the interaction between clinical process and information technology in projects involving information sharing, clinical process re-design, patient access, value generation and policy.