Health and technology

Nurse leader and entrepreneur Marguerite Rowell saw a persistent gap in healthcare firsthand: nurses stepping into leadership roles without the financial tools they’re expected to manage. She shares how that challenge inspired her to build NurseMath, a mobile app designed to put essential financial insights directly into the hands of other nurse leaders. Listen as Marguerite makes the case that nurses aren’t just caregivers—they are creators and problem-solvers shaping the future of healthcare.

Nurse informaticist and health tech founder Rachell Dumas is empowering patients within the healthcare system. In this episode, she shares how nurses are uniquely positioned to recognize where care breaks down—and how she designed HEARD to give patients the language, tools, and confidence to advocate for themselves in real time. Listen as Rachell reframes nurses as catalysts for meaningful system-level change.

SEE YOU NOW episode 131, part of our ongoing AI in Play series, features Dominic King, former surgeon and VP of Health at Microsoft AI, discussing how his team scales trusted consumer health tools used in over 50 million daily sessions.

As part of our ongoing AI in Play series, host Oriana Beaudet explores how artificial intelligence could reshape a healthcare system strained by workforce shortages and administrative overload. This episode, the first of two on the topic, features nurse leader Mary Varghese-Presti, who discusses co-designing Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot with nurses and shares her vision for how AI can restore dignity and humanity to the profession.

In this episode of our AI in Play series, we meet Ryannon Frederick, MS, RN, System Chief Nursing Officer at Mayo Clinic, who has restructured nursing leadership teams to ensure nurses identify the problems, co-develop the solutions, and remain partners from design through implementation and testing.

As AI becomes more embedded in healthcare, nurses must shape its development to ensure patient safety, trust, and clinical relevance.

In this episode, part of our AI in Play series, emergency care nurse, health innovator, and entrepreneur Kwamane Liddell, JD, MHA, BSN, shares how AI is helping remove the paperwork roadblocks such as internet access, low literacy, and stigma standing between families and resources, and between care providers and the people they care for.

Remember those clunky voice assistants from the early days of the internet? Well, the AI technology behind them has evolved dramatically and thanks to the power of Generative AI, we’re now talking to a new breed of conversational digital agents. These advanced AI agents can hold meaningful conversations with patients, offering multilingual support and knowledgeable guidance on a range of health issues. With these new capabilities, there is growing interest -- even excitement -- in Generative AI’s potential to improve access to care, address workforce shortages, and enable clinicians to reach people and communities and connect them to care and resources in ways we haven’t thought possible.

AI-based technologies are helping solve complex problems in nearly every discipline, industry, and human endeavor. And in healthcare, artificial intelligence is a game-changer. But the application of AI also comes with a lot of questions, possibilities and well-founded concerns. In this first episode – of many to come exploring AI’s role in transforming healthcare – we’re starting by looking at the basics of AI and how these fits into the big picture.