Fierce Healthcare May 10, 2024
For over a decade, I worked as a nurse in a Primary Stroke Center caring for critically ill cardiac and stroke patients. In the latter half of my career, I focused specifically on working with hospital leadership to maintain clinical excellence as the Stroke Program Coordinator. This included monitoring stroke care from ED admission through patient discharge or transfer, identifying barriers that affected processes and care teams’ ability to do their job, and, most importantly, ensuring overall patient safety during the integration of new tech and AI tools intended to help us do our jobs better—more than 1,500 of which have entered the market over the last five years.
While questions about AI’s use in healthcare have increasingly permeated...