Ambient AI eases nurse workloads, boosts patient care: Expert says
ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS — Healthcare technology is transforming nursing workflows through ambient AI and integrated data analytics, according to Regina Wysocki, Senior Informatics Programming Manager at Lone Star Communications.
In an interview with HIMSS TV powered by Oracle Health, Wysocki reveals how these innovations are reducing administrative burdens while empowering nurses to deliver better patient care.
Ambient AI: Future of nursing documentation
Ambient AI and documentation of real-time patient interactions with clinicians are some of the most innovative technologies in nursing.
Wysocki also refers to it as a mind-blowing innovation, and she explains that through it, nurses will be able to verbally record care when they visit patients instead of dedicating their hours to manual charting. Being at early stages of adoption, the technology is expected to significantly decrease the administrative workload.
The informatics expert notes that nurses’ natural adaptability makes them ideal candidates to pilot such technologies.
“I think nursing in the future is just at the forefront of new technology, because most of the things that are brought into the healthcare space are used by nursing. And so they’re among the first to use these devices to troubleshoot them,” Wysocki observes, highlighting their moves of troubleshooting new systems.
She suggests that successful implementations will come from “curious” nurses who focus on how technology can enhance patient outcomes rather than viewing it as just another workplace requirement.
Breaking down data silos for smarter patient care
Wysocki points out that data fragmentation is one of the most burning issues in healthcare today and patient data is frequently spread out among different platforms in large healthcare chains.
When nurses get the access to unified analytics dashboards, they reveal the patterns and insights that they could not see before. What they can see, continues Wysocki, is impossible to imagine without the consolidation of information.
Such work of data integration is remodeling the job of the nurse, producing, according to Wysocki, a combination of tech savvy and clinical knowledge.
The capacity of the nurses to close the technological and humanistic gap will become the most useful set of skills as the healthcare industry becomes more digital.
Evolving role of nurses in healthcare tech
Nurses have a front line experience of what really works in clinical fast set ups. This puts nurses in the role of important stakeholders in terms of development and delivery of new healthcare technologies.
The informatics leader notes that the effective adoption rate of technology should focus on the workflows of nurses.
As healthcare continues its digital transformation, nurses stand to benefit most from tools that amplify rather than complicate their vital work.
