HiNZ 2024: Kaveh Safavi, Accenture

Join us for a discussion with Kaveh Safavi, Senior Managing Director of Global Health at Accenture. With experience spanning 25 countries over two decades, Kaveh brings a unique global perspective to healthcare transformation.

In this interview, Kaveh discusses how technology, particularly generative AI, is reshaping healthcare workforce dynamics and addressing critical challenges in healthcare delivery.

Key highlights from the discussion:

🌐 Global healthcare challenges around access and workforce productivity affecting systems across 5 continents

🤖 How generative AI can help reduce administrative burden by handling up to 40% of language-based healthcare tasks

👥 The transformation of healthcare roles, with insights into how traditional nursing teams might be restructured to include AI agents

📚 The importance of building technology literacy among healthcare workers and creating new organizational structures

🔄 Why healthcare is unique in that technology adoption has historically reduced rather than improved productivity - and how we can change this

This interview was recorded at Digital Health Week NZ hosted by HiNZ. For more interviews and episodes make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel, and catch a feature episode of the Talking HealthTech Podcast featuring some of these discussions!