When nurses help build the AI, adoption follows: Lessons from 3 health systems


Tuesday, July 28th, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT 

Healthcare organizations face relentless workforce pressure, and nursing leaders are no longer asking only whether AI can help. They are asking how to implement it so front-line nurses will use it.

The answer starts with asking nurses to help build it.

Join Becker's and nursing leaders from Cincinnati Children's, Memorial Hermann Health System and OhioHealth for a candid conversation on how an AI-powered autonomous patient facing voice assistant  , co-designed with nurses from the ground up, was developed and put into practice.

Panelists will share honest early learnings — what worked, what didn't and what surprised them — including how skeptics became advocates, where the technology saved nurses time and how it reached patients often missed in education on diabetes or COPD.

Takeaways:
 
  • Why nurse involvement in AI design separates adoption from abandonment
  • What early front-line feedback revealed, and how skeptics became advocates
  • Practical lessons in change management, trust-building and sustainable adoption
  • How to bring AI to the bedside without losing the human connection at the center of care

Presenters: 

Amy McCarthy

Amy McCarthy, DNP, RNC-MNN, NE-BC, CENP

Chief Nursing Officer, Hippocratic AI

Bryan Sisk

Bryan Sisk

SVP, Chief Nursing Executive, Memorial Hermann

Allison Schlinkert

Allison Schlinkert, MSN, RN, NPD-BC

Assistant Vice President of Patient Services, Cincinnati Children's

Scott Eastep

Scott Eastep, MBOE, BSN, RN, CSSBB

Vice President, Nursing Operations & Capacity Management, Ohio Health System