Club Nurse
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Club Nurse
AI That Charts for Nurses? Microsoft’s New Ambient Tool Could Ease Burnout and Save Time (With Mary Varghese Presti)
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Nurses deserve better than spending half a shift glued to a computer, and Microsoft might finally be helping. This week on Club Nurse, Colton talks with Mary Varghese Presti, former Johns Hopkins peds nurse turned Microsoft Health & Life Sciences leader, about Dragon Copilot for Nurses. They break down how ambient AI in Epic Rover can capture assessments in real time and help populate flowsheets, cutting down charting time and mental load. They also talk privacy, why this tool was built specifically for nursing workflows, and how nurses can stay involved as AI rolls out in healthcare.
If you’ve ever stayed late to chart, skipped water, or held your pee for a heroic and medically inadvisable amount of time, this one’s for you.
>>AI That Charts for Nurses? Microsoft’s New Ambient Tool Could Ease Burnout and Save Time
Jump Ahead to Listen:
[00:00:48] Introducing guest Mary Varghese Presti
[00:03:04] Mary’s path from bedside to policy and tech
[00:05:24] Why talk about AI and nursing now
[00:06:21] What Dragon Copilot for nurses is
[00:07:31] Nurses as “silent surveillance system”
[00:10:23] Using Copilot in noisy and ED settings
[00:11:39] Built specifically for nursing documentation
[00:13:05] Step-by-step: using Copilot in a patient room
[00:17:21] From pilots to general availability in hospitals
[00:18:08] Faster, richer documentation and patient safety
[00:21:21] Adopting new tech and changing nurse workflows
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