Inovalon announced that Isaac (Zak) Kohane, M.D., Ph.D. has joined the Company’s Board of Directors. Isaac (Zak) Kohane, M.D., Ph.D. brings to Inovalon’s Board of Directors vision and experience in the field of healthcare big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer-assisted medical decision making. Dr. Kohane leads the Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) project, a National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded National Center for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) initiative based in Boston, which is currently deployed internationally to more than 120 major academic health centers. Dr. Kohane also currently leads several NIH-funded projects including a Center of Excellence in Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K), a center for Excellence in genomic Science, and the Coordinating Center for the Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN), a project leveraging national-level data to facilitate challenging patient diagnosis.