Inderpal Kohli

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.