Zain Kazmi serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor, Chief Digital & Analytics Officer in Health Affairs at the University of Texas System. He leads several UT health enterprise-wide, strategic initiatives and collaborations in areas of digital health, technology and EMR optimization, data and AI, pharmacy services, patient access, workforce and talent, payer contracting, and strategy. In close collaboration with the Executive Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs and the Health-Related Institutions (HRIs), he’s currently leading the creation of the “One UT Health” strategic framework. Kazmi is the Program Sponsor of the UT-Health Intelligence Platform (UT-HIP), a system-wide data and AI program, that serves the needs of the HRIs. UT-HIP’s priorities have been to drive financial and clinical improvement, along with supporting the vast research capabilities of the HRIs. He manages strategic partner relationships with Epic and Vizient. Kazmi oversees Health Technology strategies, particularly related to Epic EMR optimization, aimed at improving the quality of care provided to UT patients. Additionally, he is currently leading a strategic initiative for expanding healthcare access and improving quality of care in the Permian Basin region of Texas. Zain was nationally recognized as one of the 2024 “Chief Digital Officers To Know” by Becker’s Hospital Review.

Zain was previously a management consulting executive in Accenture’s Digital Health practice. He has extensive experience in developing and formulating thorough analytics strategies and leading implementations across several national and regional Providers and Payers. He was appointed as the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for International Child Care, a non-profit healthcare system in Haiti and Dominican Republic. He is on the Board of Austin MedTech Connect, an Advisor to the Scottsdale Institute, and a Mentor at the Capital Factory.

Kazmi earned his Master of Business Administration with a focus on healthcare and strategy from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.