Bringing Technology and Care Together at the Bedside
Marie provides unparalleled technical expertise in the clinical informatics service she delivers to system inpatient nursing units and to interprofessional acute care team members. An example of her tireless effort to support clinicians and patients is the key role she played throughout 2025 and Q1 of 2026 in the Rover, Epic mobile app implementation project. Maintaining a streamlined, phased approach with the IT team to ensure adequate training and support before and during each unit go-live, Marie coordinated unit preparation, communicated with leaders and staff development instructors, and was present to ensure safe patient outcomes and staff psychological well-being during a significant practice change. In collaboration with the informatics team and IT, she proactively sought clinical team feedback, analyzed and adjusted for issues to promote adoption of mobile technology to enable concurrent documentation, more immediate communication among team members, receipt of alerts and expansion of functionality that will continue to unfold over the next few years (i.e., ambient listening, remote dual acknowledgments with virtual RNs, mobile access to code narrator for scribing, and more).
Marie actively listens to her customers to understand practice implications, workflow barriers/variables, operational logistics. Her passion for the practice of nursing is evident as she often jumps in on clinical units to support the teams by answering a light, helping move patients, or whatever they may need her competent nursing hands for. She understands and strongly advocates for their needs while minimizing cost and waste. She is willing and initiates working flexible shift hours in support of night personnel during training, and travels to all hospital sites as needed - often hauling along a cart with devices, teaching resources, backpack with laptop, and all the trimmings.
She respectfully collaborates with Quality & Safety on a regular basis, representing informatics on Critical Care and Neuroscience Performance Improvement committees. Initiatives such as liberation protocols, post-extubation dysphagia screening, creation of several dozen MACROs that save inpatient nurses over 200,000 clicks monthly, VAST "paging" via Secure Chat and many more have been facilitated under her co-leadership promoting patient safety and clinician well-being in the practice environment today.
A life-long learner, Marie was thrilled to attend the Epic User Group Conference in spring 2025 and brought back many highlights that will benefit Bronson as we continue our pathway toward unified communication using VOIP and the use of AI to lighten clinician documentation burden in care planning.
