Mary Presti: From the Bedside to Big Tech - Scaling AI That Enables Better Care

Mary Presti (Microsoft) joins Dr. Reena Pande to explore how AI is moving from pilot to enterprise-scale in healthcare and why workflow, trust, and clinician adoption will determine what succeeds. As a senior healthcare technology executive at Microsoft and former bedside nurse, Mary brings unique experience spanning clinical care, consulting, pharma, and health tech, and offers a grounded perspective on how AI is evolving from early experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment. Together, Mary and Reena explore where AI is delivering real value today and why the biggest opportunities are not in diagnostics or drug discovery, but in reducing friction across everyday clinical workflows, leading Mary to share why she believes the future of AI in healthcare depends less on technology itself and more on trust, governance, and change management.Topics & TakeawaysWhy 2026 will mark the shift from AI pilots to enterprise-scale deploymentThe concept of “surround care” and where AI is delivering immediate ROIHow ambient AI and copilots are reducing documentation burdenWhy clinicians must play a central role in AI design and deploymentThe emergence of new roles like clinician, prompt engineers, and AI governance leadersWhy trust, adoption, and workflow design (not technology) are the true bottlenecksHow AI can restore human connection in care delivery🔔 Subscribe to Leadership Rounds for more candid conversations with the leaders redefining healthcare.More on Mary: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryvarghese More from Reena: - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reenapande/⁠⁠⁠⁠  - Substack: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://reenapande.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠    📍 Learn more at Oxeon.com#leadershiprounds #prescribingleadership #conversationswithclinicians #clinicians #leaders #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #healthcare #healthcareexecutive #clinicianexecutive #entrepreneurship #health #innovation #healthcareinnovation #clinicianleadership #digitalhealth