Empowered Patient Podcast

Ali Morin, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at symplr, emphasizes the need to focus on the challenges nurses face and AI's potential to reduce administrative burdens and nurse burnout. Significant staffing shortages, scheduling challenges, and increased patient acuity demand better data analytics and technology implementation to allow nurses to spend more time with patients and improve patient care. For successful integration of technology solutions into the nurses' workflow, pilot tests, training of new and experienced nurses, and listening to their concerns and ideas are essential. Ali explains, "We focus on the nursing informatics side -- that middle communicator between technology and the nurses at the bedside. So, I consider myself a translator. I listen to the clinicians and the nurses who are using our software, and we have a number of solutions that are applicable for direct care nurses as well as nurse managers and nurse leaders. I take in the pain points that they're experiencing today and bring th