We have dedicated this space to front-line clinicians driving the transformation of care using new technologies, including ambient sensors and virtual care solutions, so they can never stop caring.
In a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the challenges faced by clinicians are mounting.
Join host Molly McCarthy MBA RN-BC, former US Microsoft CNO, as she leads captivating conversations with today’s health leaders about the game-changing potential of AI and Ambient Intelligence for care teams. Visit virtualnursing.com, your go-to resource for accelerating the transition to smart care teams.
Meet your Host
Molly McCarthy, former US Microsoft CNO
Molly K. McCarthy MBA, BSN, RN-NI is a seasoned executive harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and technology to positively transform health. She is passionate about uniting technology, clinicians, and patients to improve care delivery, safety, and outcomes. Molly is currently a health technology advisor and strategist to several companies, from early stage start-ups to global organizations. She is also spending one-year as the Howley Family Visiting Professor of Healthcare at Villanova University.
Previously, Molly spent almost ten years with Microsoft as the US Chief Nursing Officer and team leader of industry clinical and technical subject matter experts. Her team at Microsoft team was charged with helping health providers and health plans transform with digital technology innovation–most notably cloud and AI adoption.
"I think being humble, listening, approaching things purposefully, but not being overbearing and missing the cues of the people you're either learning from or wanting to help your families, your patients, your colleagues really listening, leading with purpose and humanity gets us farther because it really is approaching the problem from a realistic perspective, not just from our own drivenness which is good, but being active listeners are huge."
"This is not a technology implementation. This is an evolution in the way that we practice and the way that we deliver clinical care. It is conversational care. It is nursing out loud. And that is not what we were necessarily taught to do. It is a lot of internal processing from a clinical perspective."
"Really demonstrating that nurses are the ideal partners to advance this work and incredibly important to make sure that they are, you know, not even at the table. They are your co-designer to make this work, make this happen. So really demonstrating that nurses are the ideal partners for this work. And truly, you know, nothing for us without us. That is the key component there. "
"Don't just hand us the technology like let us be in the room when you're creating it to see is it going to work? Does it apply to the clinical setting? Not just you can't just go off of the dreams of the outcomes of it, but the practicality. And I feel like that piece is where nursing has, like, the biggest pulse on patients and their needs"
"I'd like to I'd like to posit, maybe five years from now, we will have nurses that walk into a patient's room, and they never put their hands on a keyboard again."
