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HAOP 2025 · No. 03

Leading with Humanity and Innovation: Reinventing the Role of Technology in Healthcare

Kathy Azeez Narain

Chief Digital & Customer Innovation Officer, Hoag (at the time of recording)

From the recording

Healthcare is a human-centric business. It's not about just experience. There's a lot of emotion to unpack in healthcare.

Kathy Azeez Narain

About this episode

Kathy Azeez Narain came to healthcare from American Express and quickly saw it as a human business, full of emotion, where technology should give doctors time back with patients. She argued that the quality of time matters more than minutes, and told me about a retiring labor and delivery nurse who still wanted to answer new mothers' questions online. Kathy also explained why she never accepts a regulation as the reason something can't be done.

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