HistoryBiography
Michele Kang is CEO and Co-Chair of the Board of Cognosante, LLC, a woman-owned small business with primary focus on health information technology. She was formerly Vice President and General Manager of Northrop Grumman's Health Solutions where she oversaw Northrop Grumman's health IT business.
Under Ms. Kang's direction, Northrop Grumman Health Solutions became a recognized leader in health IT. Taking over the operating unit in 2003, she built a health business that now spans the major components of the health industry - clinical systems, life sciences, public health, and healthcare financing and benefits management. With extensive domain expertise in each of these areas - over 1,000 IT/Informatics professionals, more than 150 public health professionals, and two dozen clinicians on staff - her unit provided mission critical, enterprise-wide health applications, interoperable architecture, and large-scale systems integration and engineering to leading health organizations. Under Ms. Kang, Northrop Grumman supported the largest deployed electronic health record (EHR) system worldwide, processing tens of millions of clinical transactions daily, and was the largest contractor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In November 2005, her team was selected by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a prototype for a Nationwide Health Information Network architecture, a critical component for advancing the national healthcare agenda set out by President Bush.
Ms. Kang has spent more than a decade as a Management Consultant, turning around underperforming businesses and executing profitable growth strategies for Fortune 500 companies. She received a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Chicago and a Master's degree in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management.
