From launching an AI consortium with healthcare leaders to its subsidiary Nuance inking more health system partnerships, here are eight of Microsoft's healthcare moves reported by Becker's since March:
- Indianapolis-based Community Health Network is investing in Microsoft's Nuance Communications as well as a deployment of Microsoft Azure cloud services.
- The Microsoft-backed AI consortium, the Trustworthy and Responsible AI Network, expanded its efforts to Europe. This consortium, focused on promoting responsible AI principles in healthcare, has set up a European branch covering four countries.
- As part of an initiative from the Biden administration, Microsoft is offering free and low-cost resources to rural hospitals nationwide to help them boost their cyber defenses.
- Renton, Wash.-based Providence, Microsoft, and Seattle-based University of Washington developed an open-weight, AI-powered pathology model called Prov-GigaPath.
- Renton, Wash.-based Providence and Microsoft teamed up to use artificial intelligence to scan massive amounts of patient data to improve cancer care.
- EHR vendor Meditech said it will embed Microsoft's Nuance DAX Copilot into its Expanse EHR platform.
- Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care rolled out an AI copilot from Microsoft's Nuance enterprisewide after a successful pilot.
- Leaders from Duke Health, Advocate Health, Northwestern Medicine and more joined Microsoft's U.S.-based AI consortium, the Trustworthy and Responsible AI Network.