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.
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.
"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."
"Nurses need to be at the center of it, not at the periphery. They are the ones that really understand the workflow, the patient experience. And I think we can't stress that enough. Having the patient voice in this mix and then just the operational realities kind of better than anyone."
"You know, nurses need to be at the table. Nurses need to be sending out the invitations for the table. Nurses need to be at the forefront of this change, this constant change that we are experiencing."
