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Smart Care Team Spotlight Podcast

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.

Episodes

"So, beyond text, we're talking about things such as audio, images, and video. So, now MLLMs allow you to leverage generative AI broadly, but to provide context, and analysis, and insights into multiple modalities of data."

Dr. Martin Michalowski School of Nursing Foundation research professor, co-director of the Center for Nursing Informatics, co-leader of the Digital Health Lab at the University of Minnesota

Episode 44 AI in Nursing: Augmentation, Not Replacement

"We need to simultaneously move to a future where we, as an association, are helping to guide, support, and advance the profession, while simultaneously building the value and and the respect for the profession along the way."

Dr. Oriana Beaudet Vice President of Innovation for the American Nurses Enterprise

Episode 43 Scaling Change: Why Nurses Are Key to Transforming Healthcare

"The one thing that bubbles up repeatedly that I would say is number one priority for me and for the ministry as a whole is workload; workload among the nurses and the, I guess, just the clinical care team in general. And this really is if I was going to do a fishbone diagram to a lot of our metrics, it does go back to workload."

Dr. Brian Weirich Chief Nursing Innovation Officer for Bon Secours Mercy Health

Episode 42 Tech-Powered Nursing: Easing Workloads, Enhancing Care

"Lead with empathy and human connection. Technology can definitely support and elevate our work, but it's not going to replace the trust that comes with our personal connections with patients."

Tamara AL-Yassin CEO of The Nursing Beat

Episode 41 From Bedside to Breakthrough: Nurses Leading the Tech Revolution

"I do think that the risk is if we as nurses don't lean in and adopt and accept and learn about this as it's emerging, we will miss out and we will miss out on the opportunities that it has to provide to us."