Podnosis Inside Advocate Health’s ‘hospital room of the future’
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Feb 25, 2026 Molly McColl, Vice President of virtual health and clinical transformation at Advocate Health, leads design and deployment of tech-enabled care like the 'room of the future'. She discusses integrated rooms with ambient AI, virtual nursing, sensors and video. Conversations cover patient experience changes, family participation, scaling pilots, conservative AI governance and expanding specialty access to rural communities.
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Integrated In-Room Virtual Care Replaces Mobile Carts
- Advocate Health built the room of the future as an integrated ecosystem connecting patient, family, and care teams at the push of a button.
- Integration replaces mobile carts with in-room camera, audio, and sensors to improve scalability and bedside access across facilities.
All-In-One Patient Experience Improves Comfort
- Patients get an all-in-one interactive experience combining clinical consults, family video access, and entertainment from a single interface.
- Early pilots across four varied facilities show patients find the system intuitive and comforting.
Room Extends Virtual Chassis To Deliver Specialty Care
- The room extends Advocate's decade-long virtual chassis to deliver specialty care, virtual nursing, and ancillaries consistently across sites.
- In rural hospitals this enables specialty consults that otherwise wouldn't be available locally.