Nursing Voice is CRITICAL in AI and HealthTech: Why Tech Giants Can't Disrupt Healthcare Without Us with Rebecca Love RN, BS, MSN, FIEL

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Rebecca Love discusses the critical role of nursing in the development of AI tools in healthcare.

Can an algorithm truly care for a patient? As we move further into 2026, the healthcare industry is being flooded with AI tools promising to automate everything from charting to triage. But there's a massive problem: most of these tools are being built by engineers who have never spent a 12-hour shift on a med-surg floor. In this high-stakes conversation, Rebecca Love, RN , joins us to explain why the "Nursing Voice" is the most valuable asset in the 2026 tech landscape. We discuss the recent surge in ambient clinical scribes and the ethical "black boxes" of agentic AI —and why tech giants are destined to fail if they don't put nurses at the center of the development loop. This episode is a banger! Please like, follow and SUBSCRIBE! What You'll Learn in This Episode: The Missing Link in Innovation: Why tech companies are struggling to achieve ROI because they lack the "frontline intuition" only a nurse provides. The 2026 AI Reality Check: A look at the current trends, from Google's Nurse Handoff tools to the 18% error rate recently found in some AI-generated discharge summaries. Ethics of the "Black Box": How nurses serve as the ultimate "Human-in-the-Loop" to prevent algorithmic…

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Host: Amie Archibald-Varley

Guest: Rebecca Love RN, BS, MSN, FIEL

Topics covered

• AI in healthcare
• nursing voice
• health technology
• algorithmic bias
• clinical innovation

Keywords

• AI tools
• healthcare
• nursing intuition
• algorithmic bias
• ambient clinical scribes
• patient care
• tech giants

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Organizations: Google

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