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Microsoft’s Healthcare AI Efforts Holds Huge Promise for Patients
In a preview before the official announcement at HLTH last week, Microsoft executives and its hospital customers shared use cases of how its suite of AI tools can be used by health systems to improve healthcare delivery and alleviate provider burnout.
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Epic to Integrate GPT-4 into Its EHR Through Expanded Microsoft Partnership
Epic is welcoming generative AI’s entrance into healthcare. The company is expanding its existing collaboration with Microsoft by integrating OpenAI services, such as GPT-4, into its EHR. The partners have already begun piloting OpenAI services at a few health systems, including UC San Diego Health, UW Health and Stanford Health Care.
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Microsoft Strikes Partnership with Paige To Advance Cancer Diagnostics and Treatment
Microsoft is making a strategic investment in Paige, which is leveraging AI for cancer diagnostics and treatment. Paige will also use Microsoft Azure as its cloud provider for the Paige Platform.
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Hospitals Can’t Afford to Lag Behind on Cloud Adoption, Microsoft Exec Argues
Healthcare has historically trailed other industries when it comes to the adoption of new technology. But providers that fail to get serious about bucking this trend are putting their businesses at risk for closure, according to John Barto, Microsoft’s chief digital transformation officer. Many clinicians end up leaving behind institutions that make them feel like they are stuck with archaic workflows and data management systems, he said.
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CVS strikes partnership with Microsoft as it rolls out new digital strategy
CVS plans to use more of Microsoft’s cloud services, and also plans to work with the company to develop personalized health services focused on consumers. The partnership comes as CVS looks to build its digital presence and close a portion of its pharmacies.
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Health IT, Hospitals, Health Tech
Provider-led Truveta strikes partnership with Microsoft
Truveta, a company owned by 17 U.S. health systems, will build its data analytics solution on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. Microsoft will also help the company scale the solution globally and engage new customers.
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Google, Microsoft execs: AI should be designed to support, not replace, clinicians
As Google and Microsoft compete over their cloud capabilities for healthcare, both companies are touting tools to make clinicians’ lives easier by streamlining documentation or making records searchable. At MedCity INVEST Digital Health, executives from both companies agreed on one thing: these tools should play a supporting role for clinicians while keeping patients at the center.
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After Google, Microsoft struck out, can Apple get people to use its health records feature?
Apple has integrated with 700 providers for its health records app. But it faces a similar challenge to other health records projects that have failed in the past: patient uptake.
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Teladoc strikes integration with Microsoft Teams
As Microsoft pushes further into healthcare, Teladoc will offer its virtual visit capabilities for hospitals through video conferencing platform Microsoft Teams.
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Will Microsoft’s acquisition of Nuance be meaningful for physicians?
Microsoft was wise to acquire Nuance as a way to reach physicians where they are. But is voice the right approach to addressing the shortcomings of EHR systems?
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
Microsoft builds out cloud healthcare business with $19.7B Nuance acquisition
Microsoft will buy up healthcare AI partner Nuance for $19.7 billion. Nuance makes speech-recognition tools for clinical documentation, as well as security tools.
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With $44M and Microsoft R&D alliance, Volastra takes aim at metastatic cancers
Volastra Therapeutics is developing drugs for cancer metastasis, the cause of the vast majority of cancer deaths. The startup has $44 million in funding and an R&D partnership with Microsoft to develop new digital tools to detect and predict metastasis.
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How Microsoft can transform healthcare delivery
Microsoft’s latest eBook offers a look at how technology can help organizations meet patients’ changing expectations and provide personalized care.
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Kaiser Permanente joins forces with Accenture, Microsoft to improve cloud capabilities
The California-based healthcare organization will work with Accenture and Microsoft to grow and strengthen its cloud capabilities. The enhancements are expected to help Kaiser provide its care teams with data insights to personalize patient care.
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Health IT, Hospitals, Health Tech
Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Cerner join coalition to provide digital access to Covid-19 vaccine records
A group of organizations have come together to work on a solution that will provide digital access to Covid-19 vaccination records. As the country eyes a challenging transition to the new normal, a verifiable vaccine record will be necessary to ensure individual and community safety.