Rich Kenny, MMCi, RN is the SAS Health Care Industry Executive Advisor. A nurse first, his prior office used to be the back of a helicopter for Duke Life Flight where he gained experience in just about every type of hospital and care setting. Seeing the blurring line between healthcare operations and technology, he pivoted his career into informatics with a Master of Management in Clinical Informatics from Duke School of Medicine and postgraduate coursework with the Duke School of Nursing and The Fuqua School of Business.

Rich has led operations at Duke Health, one of the oldest flight programs in the U.S., and has consulted for the world’s largest health systems and cancer centers with PricewaterhouseCoopers. At the onset of the pandemic, Rich returned to Duke to create their hospital at-home program and lead remote patient monitoring programs before his non-linear career brought him to SAS in Cary, NC, where he now serves as an “Intrapreneur” to drive the development and adoption of analytics and AI into care delivery and operations.

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