(TGH) is bringing artificial intelligence to the bedside—not to replace nurses, but to empower them. Building on the success of its ambient listening rollout for physicians last year, the Florida-based academic health system is now launching a new AI solution tailored specifically for nurses.
The technology, powered by Microsoft and embedded in Epic’s Rover mobile app, automatically captures nurses’ spoken notes and converts them into clinical documentation in real-time. The goal is to reduce the hours spent manually charting and give nurses more time to focus on what they do best—caring for patients.
“Our guiding philosophy has always been to put our team members first, so they feel engaged, supported, and empowered to show up at their best for our patients,” said Wendi Goodson-Celerin, executive vice president and chief nursing executive at Tampa General. “Microsoft’s ambient listening technology can give nurses back hours of time per shift that they’d ordinarily spend manually entering data into a computer… It is giving nurses the gift of more capacity to do what they were trained to do, and what no one else does better.”
Studies have shown that nurses can spend up to 15 percent of their shifts documenting care—a significant time investment that often pulls them away from the bedside. With the new tool, nurses can speak naturally while assessing patients, and the system transcribes those insights into clinical summaries within seconds. These summaries are then securely stored in the patient’s record.
The rollout comes just one year after TGH equipped more than 500 affiliated physicians with similar ambient listening capabilities through Microsoft Dragon Copilot. Now, with nursing-specific needs in mind, the hospital is applying that same innovation to reduce burnout and improve workflow.
“We have long believed that the best, most successful innovations emerge as answers to real-world problems,” said Amit Patel, chief nursing informatics officer at Tampa General. “We took a hard look at how we could use existing technology in new ways to drive the most meaningful impact—for our team members and patients.”
TGH expects the initial rollout to quickly improve care coordination and reduce delays in documentation by closing the time gap between patient interactions and chart updates. The system is designed not only to boost efficiency but also to enhance nurse training and mentorship by freeing up time for experienced nurses to support less experienced colleagues.
With ambient AI now working behind the scenes, nurses at Tampa General can spend more time where they want to be—connecting with patients, mentoring peers, and continuing their own professional growth.
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