Multinational tech company Microsoft has unveiled several Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare innovations. These include healthcare AI models in Azure AI Studio, healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric, the healthcare agent service in Copilot Studio, and an AI-powered nursing workflow solution.
With these innovations, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare aims to support healthcare organizations on every step of their journey toward shaping a healthier future.
Effective Patient Care with Healthcare AI Models
Microsoft’s healthcare AI models is a collection of state-of-the-art multimodal medical imaging foundation models, in the Microsoft Azure AI model catalog. Specifically designed to help healthcare organizations test, refine, and develop AI solutions that meet their unique requirements, these models are developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research and strategic partners.
Healthcare AI models provide medical professionals with the tools they need to explore how AI can revolutionize patient care. Healthcare AI models include MedImageInsight (An embedding model enables sophisticated image analysis); MedImageParse (Designed for precise image segmentation); CXRReportGen (a multimodal AI model that generates detailed, structured reports from chest x-rays).
Leveraging Healthcare Data with Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft has made the general availability of healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric. The comprehensive solution allows organizations to integrate data about healthcare from different sources and modalities into a single, unified data store for analytics and artificial intelligence (AI).
The company has also launched new capabilities in public preview within healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric. These include:
- Conversational data integration
- Social determinants of health (SDOH) public dataset transformation
- Care management analytics
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) claim and claim line feed (CCLF) data ingestion
- Data discovery and cohorting
Healthcare Agent Service in Copilot Studio
Microsoft has announced the public preview of healthcare agent service in Copilot Studio, which will allow developers to create Copilot agents for patient triaging, clinical trial matching, appointment scheduling, and more.
Early adopters, like Cleveland Clinic, are already utilizing these innovations to improve patient experiences and operational efficiency.
AI-powered Nursing Workflow Solution
As there are predictions of a shortage of nurses in the coming years, the need for technology to support the nursing profession has become more crucial than ever. To do so, Microsoft, at Epic’s UGM last year, announced its collaboration in Epic Workshop.
The company now has shared more about its collaboration with several leading healthcare organizations, including Duke Health, Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital, Baptist Health of Northeast Florida, Advocate Health, Mercy, Northwestern Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Tampa General Hospital.
The collaboration is aimed at developing an AI solution using ambient technology to address nursing documentation by drafting flowsheets for review, allowing nurses to focus less on paperwork and more on their patients.
Future of Healthcare with AI
As AI continues to advance and create its impact in healthcare, Microsoft hopes to strengthen its data and AI investments through the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The company’s healthcare solutions are based on Microsoft’s responsible AI principles and trust.
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