Human Centered Design - The Generation of Healthcare Application Development - Maryam Zahedi

Women Leaders & Influencers in Healthcare.

Myriam Zahedi is the first-ever Millennial to be on the Straight Outta Health IT Podcast! With an extensive background in app development in the digital healthcare landscape, Myriam is transforming the lives of thousands, if not millions, of people worldwide. Early in her career, she discovered the human-centered element in design, and she just fell in love. She explains what this concept means and how it has guided her work.

She shares what she is doing at Apple and how they enrich people’s lives by developing apps that genuinely care for their needs and desires. Gamification plays a significant role in today’s app development since most users want to get some sort of recognition. Myriam reflects on how this term is being used and how it is affecting the way she is approaching her work in the health and wellness sector.

One of the biggest challenges Myriam has faced in her career as an app developer in the health sector has been data privacy. The general public wants to have enough confidence in any company to give them their data. Another challenge in this industry has been that it’s been absolutely male-managed. Myriam shares her experience bringing another point of view to create significantly cross-functionality apps for all kinds of people.

Tune in to this conversation about putting the humans first in everything you do, and how transferable skills can be used even when you are pivoting industries!