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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

"The future is actually here right now, and nurses have to be part of the decision-making process because you can convince any CFO how important that is, because they don't want to waste one penny on the wrong move. And not having a nurse as part of the decision-making process, you are guaranteed to make a wrong move because you're putting a solution in place without asking the end user."

Claire Zangerle CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership and Chief Nurse Executive of the American Hospital Association

Episode 49 How Tech Can Enhance, Not Hinder, Patient Care with Claire Zangerle

"A nurse is so much more valuable than being a scribe, and there's so much more to do to work at the top of his or her license."

Kolby Kolbet Chief Innovation Officer at Life Link III

Episode 48 Why AI Needs Nurses’ Critical Thinking More Than Ever with Kolby Kolbet

"Nurses are essential bridge in the perioperative space. We see, and from your involvement in these technologies implementation, the growth of them, the accelerating cycle in the evolution of these tools"

Dr. Josh Wymer Chief Health Information and Data Strategy Officer at the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services

Episode 47 Nurses at the Core of the AI Task Force with Dr. Josh Wymer

"What I would really strongly encourage is that nurses know things that other people do not, and they have to get past the question of, can I be at the table because you're at the table?"

Dr. Kelly Aldrich Professor of Nursing Informatics and Director of Innovation at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and founder of Mindful Immersive Nursing Demonstration Lab

Episode 46 From Bedside to Tech Pioneer with Kelly Aldrich

"I think we're at a strange moment relative to technology in nursing. Again, I've been a nurse for, I'd say, 30-plus years, and by far, this is the most change I've seen relative to technology."