A registered nurse for more than three decades, Mary Joy Garcia-Dia has witnessed how the healthcare landscape has evolved and how technology has redesigned the way doctors and nurses interact and manage medical decisions with their patients through healthcare informatics and decision support systems like AI.
While she passed the licensing exams, she could not practice because she did not meet the age requirement of 21 years to legally work as a registered nurse in the Philippines. She found a nursing job at the private clinic of a cosmetic doctor when she came to see him for rashes on her limbs. When he learned she was a nurse, he invited her to work for him. Her tasks involved giving injections to patients suffering from fungal infections.