2024 Access to Care Annual Luncheon

Kaveh Safavi

Senior Managing Director

Consulting Global Health Accenture

Dr. Kaveh Safavi, a senior managing director at Accenture, is a seasoned leader in healthcare transformation. With more than three decades of experience, Dr. Safavi has held prominent roles in the private and public sectors. His experience includes leading Cisco's global healthcare practice and serving as chief medical officer for Thomson Reuters' health division. Among his many accomplishments was establishing one of the Midwest's first electronic-health-record-enabled primary care practices. IT Services Report named him the #1 healthcare IT executive for 2020. Trained as a medical doctor and a lawyer, Dr. Safavi holds an M.D. from Loyola University School of Medicine and a J.D. from DePaul University College of Law. In addition, Dr. Safavi is an adjunct lecturer of Health Enterprise Management at Kellogg School of Management-Northwestern University.

 

Generative AI has inspired extensive speculation about its transformative role in health care. Some are overly optimistic, and some are unduly pessimistic because of the complexity and novelty of this new technology. At the same time Healthcare is facing a looming access crisis due to a demographically driven increase in the demand for care and a reduction in a workforce available to provide care. Fortunately, as much as 40% of what people do in their jobs involves reading and writing tasks that are highly amenable to large language models and represent perhaps the greatest benefit that healthcare can recognize from generative AI. Dr. Safavi's presentation will address what generative AI is, what it is not, what generative AI can do, what generative AI should do and how organizations are preparing for it.