Angi Kerr Brings a Nursing Perspective to Connected Care

For Angi Kerr, conversations about connected healthcare technology begin with the realities of clinical work. Before moving into medical technology, she worked in nursing and nursing leadership, gaining firsthand experience with the environments, workflows, and communication demands that shape care delivery. Today, as Associate Director of Informatics and Clinical Workflows at Baxter, she applies that perspective to the connections between electronic medical records, clinical devices, and the people who use them.

Her work centers on a practical question: How can technology fit into clinical workflows without creating unnecessary duplication or pulling attention away from patient care? Angi supports sales colleagues and works with customers to demonstrate how connected technologies can improve communication and reduce repeated tasks. She also leads a team of clinicians who bring clinical context to customer discussions and technology planning.

A foundation in nursing leadership

Angi has more than 30 years of nursing and healthcare experience. During her time in hospital nursing leadership, she helped design a new hospital build focused on women’s services and education. That responsibility placed workflow design within a larger operational setting, where decisions about spaces, processes, and resources needed to reflect how clinicians worked and how patients received care.

The experience helped shape a professional focus that continues in her current work: technology and care environments are most useful when they account for the needs of the people working within them. A clinical perspective can help connect technical possibilities with the practical demands caregivers encounter each day.

Twenty-two years ago, Angi moved from the hospital setting into the medical technology industry. Her purpose was to bring that clinical viewpoint into a different part of healthcare. She first contributed clinical insight in Marketing and later moved into clinical sales, translating between the priorities of care teams and the capabilities of technology.

Connecting systems with clinical practice

For the past 13 years, Angi has worked in Connectivity and Communication. In this area, the electronic medical record is not viewed in isolation. It is part of a broader patient-care environment that includes the devices clinicians interact with throughout the day.

When technologies do not communicate effectively, caregivers may encounter duplicated workflow, including repeated documentation or data entry. Connecting systems can help reduce that repetition while making information more timely and useful to the care team. The goal is not simply to add another technology. It is to consider how systems work together and how that coordination can support communication.

Angi’s role includes helping customers understand those relationships. Because every organization has its own processes and needs, this work requires attention to the clinical workflow surrounding a technology—not only the technology itself. Her nursing background provides a framework for discussing what implementation may mean for the people who will use connected tools in their daily responsibilities.

Clinical support through change

Angi wants caregivers and healthcare organizations to know they do not have to navigate the addition of technology alone. Industry clinical teams can support them throughout the journey, helping connect technical decisions with patient-care priorities and established ways of working.

That support is also central to the team Angi leads. Its clinicians help customers and colleagues examine how technology may interact with clinical practice. They contribute real-world context to conversations about workflows, communication, and system connections, giving organizations an opportunity to explore practical considerations as they adopt new tools.

This approach recognizes that introducing technology is not solely a technical undertaking. It also involves the people expected to incorporate it into complex clinical settings. Listening to caregivers, understanding existing processes, and identifying duplicated effort can help keep implementation discussions grounded in the work of care delivery.

Keeping attention on the patient

Across Angi’s path from nursing leadership to Marketing, clinical sales, and informatics, one theme remains consistent: healthcare technology should respond to clinical needs. Connectivity can be valuable when it helps information move between systems, supports communication, and limits avoidable repetition.

For caregivers and organizations, the presence of clinically experienced support teams can make technology conversations more approachable. For Angi, bringing nursing knowledge into those conversations is a way to help ensure that workflow remains visible as systems evolve—and that caregivers can stay focused on caring for the patient.