MedCity News March 7, 2025
Lavonia Thomas, nursing informatics officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center, hopes that nurses will gain more access to ambient listening tools that listen in on patient conversations and then generate summaries for documentation purposes. These AI tools have become popular among physicians in the past couple years.
The nursing shortage remains a key challenge for the healthcare industry, with federal authorities predicting a shortage of 63,720 full-time nurses in 2030. To address this problem, tech startups are developing tools to simplify nurses’ work and reduce their administrative burden. These include mobile charting apps, tools to enable better communication between care teams, and tech to speed up the nurse handoff process.
These tools are slowly starting to make nurses’ jobs less...
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