November 13, 2025
1 min read
Key takeaways:
- AI may foster communication between health care professionals and their patients.
- It may also give health care professionals a renewed sense of purpose.
SAN DIEGO — AI may foster communication and provide health care professionals with a new sense of purpose, according to a presenter at AIMed25.
“I hope this ignites people’s curiosity to ask questions again, to look at what is out there, and take what they are learning and bring it into practice,” Dani Bowie, DNP, RN, NE-BC, senior vice president of Workforce AI at Aya Healthcare, told Healio.
According to Bowie, many health care professionals are getting away from the reason why they went into practice.
“You see a lot of individuals who go into the profession because it is purpose driven. I am a nurse and the reason I went into the profession was to help people,” Bowie said. “But you get in and you spend a lot of time with your backs to a patient on a computer documenting.”
Bowie said the application of AI tools like ambient listening or AI scribes into the clinical workflow can improve not only the communication of a care team, but also the connection between a clinician and their patient.
“I can get back to seeing my patient, conversing with my patient, touching my patient and making that human connection, where before it was a lot of connection with documentation,” Bowie said.
Bowie also said it is reasonable for health care professionals to feel apprehensive about the impending ubiquity of AI in their practices.
“I am apprehensive, too, at times. That is a valid feeling, and we need to be aware of it,” Bowie said. “That is good for us as health care leaders to continue to question. We are raised in the scientific method. We want to test, study and then bring it into practice.”
However, Bowie said health care leaders should strive to overcome their sense of apprehension regarding AI.
“My call out to my leaders is to lean in right now,” Bowie said. “This AI revolution is upon us, and we have the unique opportunity as health care leaders to inform the product to make it work for us.”
For more information:
Dani Bowie, DNP, RN, NE-BC, wishes to be contacted through Rebecca Kelley at rebecca.kelley@ayahealthcare.com.
Sources/Disclosures
Source:
Bowie D, et al. Human plus machine: Finding purpose in the age of AI. Presented at: AIMed25; Nov. 9-12, 2025; San Diego.
Disclosures:
Bowie reports no relevant financial disclosures.
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