Where and how should nurse leaders invest in AI?
This article is part of a series that examines the three primary questions that nursing leaders are asking themselves about AI and provides the data-backed answers. The question answered in this piece is: Where should the AI investment money go and why? To learn more, read Nursing AI Benchmarks: Prove Success and Nursing AI Benchmarks: Impact the Future.
Key Takeaways
A portfolio of three AI use cases is nursing's sweet spot: 85% of deployments reported positive ROI among respondents running three use cases at a time, compared with 56–57% for smaller or larger portfolios.
Let data location, not habit or perceived risk, decide which AI tools to use. Where the EHR already holds the data, use the EHR; in other areas, give third-party or hybrid tools more consideration.
Ambient documentation is nursing's clearest near-term bet: 92% of nursing respondents plan to increase their investment in the use case over the next 12–18 months.