At the HLTH conference, and most other recent health conferences, leaders of tech companies, hospitals and drug manufacturers have been talking about AI and its impact on the industry. Jing Wang, left, and Rebecca Love are leading a program at Florida State University to ensure nurses are playing a role in the development of AI in healthcare. Nursing leaders are stepping up to be part of that conversation. Rebecca Love and Jing Wang are aiming to help shape that conversation and to ensure that nurses aren’t left behind.
In fact, they are looking to ensure that nurses are playing a leading role in the use and growth of AI in healthcare .
Wang, dean of the Florida State University College of Nursing, is leading the nation’s first master’s nursing program on AI in healthcare. Love, a nursing leader, entrepreneur and author, is joining Florida State’s College of Nursing to create the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium.
In a conversation at the HLTH conference last week, Love and Wang talked about why it’s so important for nurses to be involved with the development of AI solutions. And they warned of the consequences if nurses are excluded, for nurses and the healthcare industry as a whole.
Wang sees the Florida State consortium as playing an important role in the future of AI in healthcare.
“We would like to really bring academic partners, health system partners, startups, the nursing innovator community all together to say, here is the nursing voice for AI and innovation,” Wang says.
Love says AI has the potential to help nurses do their job better, and help healthcare organizations provide better patient care, if nurses are part of developing and utilizing these new technologies.
“We believe that there is tremendous power and opportunity for AI to support the nursing workforce in ways that we have not yet seen,” Love says.
But she says she doesn’t want to see healthcare organizations and AI companies “isolate our profession from what could be perhaps the most transformative advancements for our profession that we’ve seen in 100 years.” Read more: Cleveland Clinic CEO says AI can ‘democratize’ access to […]
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