Microsoft announcement an expansion of its Cloud for Healthcare capabilities, with new offerings and features aimed at improving AI models, data access and integration, administrative task automation and nursing workflows.
In response to healthcare organizations’ need to be able to integrate and analyze various types of data, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare launched healthcare AI models in Azure AI Studio. These foundation models — a collection of Multimodal AI tools created in collaboration with Providence, Paige.ai and others – should enable stakeholders to process large amounts of clinical, imaging and genomic data. Additionally, users can use the base models to create and refine AI tools specific to their needs.
“The development of fundamental AI models in pathology and medical imaging is expected to lead to significant advances in cancer research and diagnosis,” Carlo Bifulco, MD, chief medical officer of Providence Genomics, said in the press release. . “These models can complement human expertise by providing insights beyond traditional visual interpretation and, as we move toward a more integrated, multimodal approach, they will reshape the future of medicine.”
New updates to health data solutions in Microsoft Fabric aim to address some of the issues data access and management challenges facing health systems.
Updated features include: conversational data integration via DAX Copilot, in which users could generate insights from patient encounters; social determinants of health (SDOH) data set transformation, enabling stakeholders to ingest and analyze public data sets to inform strategies around social needs and health-related risk factors; claim data ingestion, allowing healthcare organizations to harmonize CMS information with clinical, SDOH and imaging data to population health management; care management analysis to improve risk stratification and coordination of care; and data discovery workflows to help stakeholders develop and analyze patient cohorts.
In light of industry-wide challenges, such as rising costs and labor shortages, Microsoft also announced a Generative AI-health agent service powered by Copilot Studio. The offering – currently in public preview – allows organizations to develop Copilot agents for patient triage, appointment scheduling and clinical trial matching, with the aim of streamlining and automating time-consuming tasks.
We are at an inflection point where advances in AI are fundamentally changing the way we work and live.
Joe PetroCorporate Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences Solutions and Platforms, Microsoft
Finally, Microsoft provided additional information about its work to create an AI-powered nursing documentation tool. The proposed solution – developed in collaboration with Advocate Health, Baptist Health of Northeast Florida, Duke Health, Epic, Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital, Mercy, Northwestern Medicine, Stanford Health Care and Tampa General Hospital – will use ambient technology write “flow charts” for nurses, which should help inform patient assessments and streamline clinical documentation.
“For nurses, integrating AI-based solutions into our workflows is a game-changer,” said Terry McDonnell, senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Duke University Health System, associate dean for business. clinics at Duke University School of Nursing, Duke. Health. “This allows us to focus more on patient care rather than the administrative burden of documentation. By automating tedious tasks, Microsoft’s Ambient AI solution helps reduce burnout and gives us more time to connect with our patients at the bedside, where we really make a difference. “.
Microsoft management emphasized that these expanded Cloud for Healthcare capabilities are designed to support healthcare organizations in their efforts to digital transformation through AI adoption.
“We are at an inflection point where breakthroughs in AI are fundamentally changing the way we work and live,” said Joe Petro, corporate vice president, healthcare and science solutions and platforms. of life at Microsoft. “Across the healthcare and life sciences industry, these advances are significantly improving patient care and also rekindling the joy of practicing medicine for clinicians. Microsoft AI-powered solutions help lead these efforts by streamlining workflows, improving data integration, and using AI to deliver better outcomes for healthcare professionals, researchers, and scientists , to payers, providers, medical technology developers, and ultimately the patients they all serve.
Shania Kennedy has been covering news related to healthcare IT and analytics since 2022.
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