How Microsoft Is Using AI Agents to Give Nurses Their Time Back with Mary Varghese Presti, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Health and Life Sciences

This podcast is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket, your exclusive healthcare marketing agency. Learn how to accelerate your growth by going to⁠ outcomesrocket.com AI is finally mature enough to move out of the way so nurses and clinicians can put humans back at the center of care.  In this episode, Mary Varghese Presti, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Health and Life Sciences, discusses how global clinician shortages and rising acuity are colliding with an “AI frontier” that can reshape documentation, workflows, and patient outcomes. She shares her personal story as the daughter and former nurse who saw workforce gaps firsthand, then explains why Dragon Copilot for nurses was built to relieve documentation overload and capture the “invisible” work nurses do at the bedside. Mary breaks down the leap from copilots to agentic services, where digital colleagues take on predictable, nonclinical tasks and surface patterns clinicians would miss, as in Stanford’s AI-enabled tumor boards. Finally, she paints a future of hybrid human–digital teams and ambient, background technology that restores time, presence, and dignity to care.  Tune in and learn how AI can truly serve caregivers! Resources Connect with and follow Mary Varghese Presti on LinkedIn. Follow Microsoft on LinkedIn. Visit the Microsoft and Life Sciences website! Listen to Mary’s previous interview on our podcast here. Watch Mary’s keynote presentation at the HLTH conference here.