Episode 131: AI in Play: The Clinicians Shaping Healthcare Technology Part II

36 min listen • February, 27 2026

There is a palpable mix of excitement and anxiety about the latest impending wave of Artificial Intelligence. AI tools are being developed that will fundamentally impact our jobs, our relationships, our access to knowledge and creativity, our children's lives, and our planet. But for an industry like healthcare — where fax machines and pagers are common, where people struggle to find affordable care or adequate resources, and nurses are leaving the profession due to administrative burdens and moral distress — can AI be an answer? 

In this two-part feature of our AI in Play series, where we explore AI's role in transforming healthcare, host Oriana Beaudet, Vice President of Innovation at the American Nurses Association, Credentialing Center, and Foundation, talks with a nurse and a clinician helping to shape the future of AI in healthcare for one of the largest technology companies in the world.  

Episode 131 features Dominic King, former surgeon and VP of Health at Microsoft AI, where his team builds and scales consumer health tools that see more than 50 million health-related sessions a day. In this conversation, we learn about Microsoft's partnership with Harvard Medical School and how it's working to ensure that the billions of health questions people ask AI every day are met with credible, clinically sound information. We also hear how he thinks about patient safety and trust in AI, and we’ll get his candid take on what AI cannot replace, why clinicians must be central to scaling these tools beyond the pilot stage, and how he believes technology is the single biggest lever for making health systems sustainable in the face of growing global demand.

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See You Now is a podcast highlighting the innovative and human centered solutions that nurses are coming up with to solve for today’s most challenging, healthcare problems, created in collaboration with Johnson and Johnson and the American Nurses Association and hosted by nurse, economist and health tech specialist, Shawna Butler.

Resources

• American Nurses Association, Code of Ethics, Provision Seven
• Microsoft AI blog co-authored by Dominic King
• Official October 2025 announcement confirming Dragon Copilot as the first commercially available ambient AI solution for nursing
• Transforming the Nursing Workflow with Ambient Voice and AI
• Financial Times Article: "Mustafa Suleyman plots AI 'self-sufficiency' as Microsoft loosens OpenAI ties"
• Documentation Burden in Nursing and Its Role in Clinician Burnout Syndrome
• Measurement of Clinical Documentation Burden Among Physicians and Nurses Using EHRs: A Scoping Review
• Charting the Path Forward: Nursing Perspectives on Documentation and Change
• Nursing Moral Distress and Intent to Leave Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Estimation of Moral Distress Among Nurses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
• Does Moral Distress in Emergency Department Nurses Contribute to Intentions to Leave?
• Paying for It: Costs, Debt, and Americans Getting Sicker and Poorer — 2023 Affordability Survey
• Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs
• Inability to Pay for Care, Medicine Hits New High
• The Fax Is Still King in Healthcare