About the principal

Tyler Kent

Data science and AI executive. Thirteen years building analytics organizations, data platforms, and production AI products, most of it in healthcare.

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Years in healthcare data

Started as an analyst in 2013. Medicare claims research, clinical trials, behavioral health, value-based care economics, and the leadership roles on top of them.

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Annual client renewal

A healthcare SaaS company's book of business renewed at 97% in a year. Behind that number: the customer health scoring engine Tyler built, which told success teams which clients needed attention and when.

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Regulatory regimes

HIPAA-governed CMS and Medicare claims, FDA submissions at a medical device company, FERPA-compliant architecture as a startup co-founder.

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Production AI products

Conceived, designed, and shipped end to end: autonomous research agents, automated QA systems, retrieval-grounded assistants, consumer-facing tools.

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Peer-reviewed journal articles

JAMA Network Open, JAGS, BMJ Open, Scientific Reports and more, plus five peer-reviewed conference abstracts. Full list below.

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Data platforms from zero

Modern stacks (Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, semantic layers, AI-powered self-service analytics) stood up from nothing at two different companies.

The story

Strategy and delivery, from the same person.

Tyler started in supply chain and logistics, moved into clinical statistics at a medical device company, programming datasets for FDA submissions, and then spent a decade in healthcare research and data science leadership. His Medicare claims work supported analyses behind federal drug-price negotiation policy and the Independence at Home Act of 2017.

As a director he has built data organizations and platforms end to end, twice from zero: modern warehousing and semantic layers, AI-powered self-service analytics, and a research institute publishing from proprietary care-coordination data. Alongside the leadership work, he designs and builds production AI products himself: autonomous research agents, automated quality-assurance systems, and retrieval-grounded assistants.

He holds dual business degrees from Arizona State's W. P. Carey School of Business, including supply chain management, which is why his approach to operations problems starts with constraints and flow rather than software features. Kent Applied is the practice he built to do this work directly for organizations that need it.

PublicationsJAMA Network Open, JAGS, BMJ Open, Scientific Reports, J. Palliative Medicine, JACEP Open, eGEMs, AJAC
Policy workAnalyses supporting Medicare drug-price negotiation and the Independence at Home Act of 2017
StackPython, SQL, SAS (certified), Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, React, Claude and GPT platforms
MethodsMachine learning, propensity score matching, causal inference, time series, operations research
ServiceCommittee chair, SAEM informatics interest group; peer reviewer, AMIA
EducationBS Supply Chain Management & BS Business Management, W. P. Carey School of Business, ASU
Publications

The paper trail.

Peer-reviewed research, with the venues that reviewed it.

New healthcare payment models: risk scores aren't enough to guide resource allocation · Scientific Reports, 2025. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-04285-wScientific Reports
Cost and Utilization Implications of a Health Plan's Home-Based Palliative Care Program · Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2024;27(4):464–470. doi:10.1089/jpm.2023.0401J. Palliative Medicine
Association of Generic Competition With Price Decreases in Physician-Administered Drugs and Estimated Price Decreases for Biosimilar Competition · JAMA Network Open, 2021;4(11):e2133451. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.33451JAMA Network Open
Association of dementia diagnosis with urinary tract infection in the emergency department · JACEP Open, 2020;1(6):1291–1296. doi:10.1002/emp2.12268JACEP Open
30-Day Emergency Department Revisit Rates among Older Adults with Documented Dementia · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2019;67(11):2254–2259. First author. doi:10.1111/jgs.16114JAGS · first author
A Method for Segmenting Medicare Expenditures to Inform Cost Effective Care Delivery for Older Adults · eGEMs, 2019;7(1):28. doi:10.5334/egems.272eGEMs
Improved Cost and Utilization Among Medicare Beneficiaries Dispositioned From the ED to Receive Home Health Care · The American Journal of Accountable Care, 2019;7(1):10–16. ajmc.comAJAC
Delirium as a predictor of mortality in US Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department · BMJ Open, 2018;8(5):e021258. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021258BMJ Open
Association Between Physical Therapy in the Emergency Department and ED Revisits for Older Adult Fallers · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2018;66(11):2205–2212. doi:10.1111/jgs.15469JAGS
Plus five peer-reviewed conference abstracts · ACEP Research Forum (Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2017 and 2018 — first author on the 2018 abstract) and AGS Annual Meeting (JAGS supplements, 2018 and 2019) on Independence at Home savings and home-based primary care.ACEP · AGS
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