Enhancing healthcare with data and responsible AI: New innovations from Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
In the ever-evolving healthcare landscape, Microsoft is leading the development of advanced, responsible AI to revolutionize patient and provider experiences, improve population health and reduce healthcare industry costs. Our AI capabilities enable both proactive patient care and personalized treatment plans. Our commitment to improving AI capabilities for the healthcare industry in a responsible way not only enhances patient outcomes but also tackles the pressing issue of healthcare workforce burnout, with the promise of bringing joy back to the practice of medicine. Collaborating with industry experts and adhering to best practices, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare provides innovative data and AI solutions, enabling organizations to manage diverse health data effectively within a secure and compliant framework.
Powering healthcare AI with unified and protected data
We are excited to announce the general availability of healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric, along with the public preview of healthcare application templates for Microsoft Purview. These advancements represent a leap forward for data-centric healthcare, enabling organizations to streamline, secure, and analyze diverse biomedical data—the foundation to build powerful and responsible healthcare AI.
In the latest public preview release, Microsoft Fabric’s healthcare data solutions now integrate DAX Copilot data, offering a comprehensive platform for ingesting, storing, and analyzing a wide range of healthcare data. This includes clinical, imaging, claims, conversational, and social determinants of health (SDOH) data, all handled within a multi-modal biomedical lakehouse. The platform adheres to healthcare standards, such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM), and provides tools for data transformation, enrichment, discovery, and visualization.
With the new addition of DAX, the Dragon Ambient Experience, a draft medical note is generated at the point of care, combining healthcare and conversational data to generate unique insights. The platform has controls in place to support an organization’s compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), offering role-based access control and robust data governance. An AI-powered data discovery and grouping experience enables customers to discover their data and supports healthcare providers build patient cohorts for AI development, enhancing the capabilities of data discovery and building cohorts in this public preview.
In tandem, the healthcare application templates for Microsoft Purview are designed to help healthcare organizations govern their data with confidence. These templates allow healthcare organizations to discover and govern sensitive data in compliance with industry standards.
AI advances in healthcare
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare offers both healthcare data solutions and healthcare AI models well suited for managing multimodal healthcare data.
We are excited to unveil the public preview of Microsoft healthcare AI models in Azure AI Studio and GitHub, a collection of cutting-edge multimodal generative AI models for healthcare and life sciences available in the Azure AI model catalog. This platform empowers developers and researchers to create sophisticated multimodal health and life sciences solutions more efficiently, using fewer data and compute resources, thus reducing development time and costs.
We have collaborated with our partner ecosystem to bring forth a suite of advanced AI models that can work with different types of medical data. These models are engineered to operate both in conjunction with advanced general reasoning models like GPT-4o and Microsoft’s Phi-3 family, paving the way for potent multimodal solutions that meet the needs of the healthcare and life sciences community.
Microsoft Fabric’s healthcare data solutions are the multimodal data estate that powers our AI, integrating diverse data types into a unified environment. This integration facilitates enhanced decision-making and propels patient outcomes by providing comprehensive insights, particularly by combining specialized multimodal AI models with Fabric’s robust data integration tools.
We are also pleased to announce the public preview of healthcare agent service integrated in Microsoft Copilot Studio. This innovative platform is tailored for the rapid, secure, and compliant development of healthcare copilots, incorporating generative AI based on a healthcare-specialized stack.
With healthcare agent service, our customers can create their own copilots, featuring pre-built healthcare specific safeguards and intelligence. Healthcare agent service is specifically designed for the healthcare sector, incorporating a range of responsible AI safeguards, including chat, clinical, and compliance measures ensuring that the development of healthcare copilot agents adheres to the highest standards of safety and regulatory compliance.
This announcement underscores our commitment to empower health and life science organizations with advanced tools that are not only innovative but also responsible and compliant with industry standards.
Furthermore, the Azure Health Data Services de-identification service is set to reach general availability in November. The cloud API service uses natural language processing techniques to find, redact, or surrogate protected health information (PHI) in unstructured text, including clinical notes, doctor/patient text messages, clinical trial data, discharge summaries, and more. By leveraging the Azure Health Data Services de-identification service, healthcare organizations can confidently utilize or share their data for research, analytics, and AI-powered insights without compromising data privacy.
The future of AI in healthcare
As we stand on the brink of a new era in healthcare, the integration of AI and data solutions is not just a possibility but a necessity. The advancements we’ve discussed, from Microsoft’s responsible AI initiatives to the groundbreaking capabilities of Microsoft Fabric and healthcare AI models, are transforming the way we approach patient care, data management, and overall healthcare delivery. These innovations are not only enhancing patient outcomes but also bringing joy back to the practice of medicine by alleviating the burdens on healthcare providers. The time to lead the charge in revolutionizing healthcare is now.
We invite you to join us on this journey. Explore the possibilities with Microsoft’s AI and data solutions and see how they can empower your organization to achieve new heights in patient care and operational efficiency.
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is helping your organization shape a healthier future with data and AI
We are excited to strengthen our data and AI investments through the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Our healthcare solutions are built on a foundation of trust and Microsoft’s responsible AI principles. Through these innovations, we are making it easier for our partners and customers to create connected experiences at every point of care, empower their healthcare workforce, and unlock the value from their data using data standards that are important to the healthcare industry.
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