Nursing a Career in Tech: Why Nurses Can Become Healthtech’s Most Important Product Leader

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I'm Rik Renard, a registered nurse leading strategy at Sword Health, a $4 billion healthcare AI company. Seven years ago, I was charting in an EHR that crashed every third patient, explaining to families why their discharge got delayed again because systems couldn't talk to each other, and watching administrators roll out technology that nobody who actually delivered care had approved.

Plot twist: that's still happening.

Most people building healthcare technology don't understand what healthcare looks like from the bedside. And the stakes just got exponentially higher. Healthcare will transform more in the next five years than in the last fifty combined. AI is answering patient calls, making clinical recommendations, and rebuilding workflows from admission to discharge. Which means we need people who've delivered care, building these solutions, not watching them get deployed.

 

Nurses are perfectly positioned to do exactly that. You've gotten alignment between physicians, administrators, and frontline staff who all want different things every single shift. You know what patients actually need, not what surveys claim. You spot safety risks before they become disasters. And you've MacGyvered solutions to impossible problems with whatever you had on hand. That combination of skills is exactly what healthcare AI needs right now. 

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But most nurses don't know where to start. How do you translate clinical experience into product language? What do hiring managers look for? How do you position yourself when your background is in scrubs, not software?

That's why I'm hosting a webinar with Rebecca Love and Rob Fraser, two nurses who've made this transition and now shape healthtech products at scale. We're covering how to move from bedside to building, why nursing experience predicts product quality, and how to position yourself in interviews. 

AI is rebuilding healthcare right now. The question isn't whether technology will reshape care delivery. It's whether nurses will lead that transformation or watch it happen to them.

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Healthcare's future should be built by people who've delivered it. Let's make sure it is.

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