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Doctor sitting in a chair at a desk while looking at a tablet
By  Anthony Vecchione 10:21 pm October 11, 2024
Microsoft unveiled a number of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare innovations designed to connect experiences, boost team collaboration, empower healthcare workers and unleash clinical and operational insights. The company is launching healthcare AI models, a collection of "cutting-edge" multimodal medical-imaging foundation models that will be accessible in the Azure AI model catalog. The models,...
Two healthcare providers looking at diagnostic images
By  Jessica Hagen 05:37 pm July 24, 2024
Microsoft announced it is partnering with Mass General Brigham, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and its health system UW Health to research and innovate advanced radiology-focused multimodal AI foundation models and develop medical imaging copilot applications. Mass General Brigham, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, and UW Health will work with Microsoft to...
Juan Lavista Ferres, head of Microsoft's AI for Good Lab
By  Jessica Hagen 07:37 pm April 29, 2024
The head of Microsoft's AI for Good Lab, Juan Lavista Ferres, coauthored a book providing real-world examples of how artificial intelligence can responsibly be used to positively affect humankind. Ferres sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss his new book, AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action and Health. He talked about ways to mitigate biases within data input in AI...
A doctor reading a patient's file on a laptop
By  Adam Ang 06:29 am April 15, 2024
Microsoft, GE HealthCare, and LG Electronics have recently partnered with a shared goal of supporting smart hospital constructions in South Korea.  The trio have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate and contribute their respective expertise in medical equipment and medtech solutions, smart hospital operation solutions, and cloud and platforms.  In particular, Microsoft Korea will...
Person holds infant in arms
By  Trevor Dermody 10:23 am April 2, 2024
Seattle Children's Research Institute and tech giant Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab partnered on research examining the cause of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), and determined that genetic testing at birth may help to determine a child's risk of SIDS.  The two organizations discussed the research during an event in Washington, which brought together more than 155 researchers and scientists to...
Michael Greeley of Flare Capital Partners, Robbie Freeman of Mount Sinai Health System, Mary Beth Chalk of BeeKeeperAI, Abhinav Shashank at Innovaccer and Sally Frank at Microsoft for Startups
By  Jessica Hagen 06:32 pm March 18, 2024
ORLANDO – During HIMSS24 Views from the Top session, "Digital health startups: Harnessing innovation to disrupt and improve care delivery," experts relayed that strength in an executive team (not necessarily a product) and solutions that solve providers' pain points are top of mind. "There are a series of attributes we tend to weigh pretty heavily–the strength and relevance of the executive team...
Healthcare provider with a stethoscope around their neck while holding a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 01:29 pm February 6, 2024
Seattle-based Outbound AI, a company offering AI-powered virtual agents that perform administrative tasks, announced it was selected to participate in Microsoft's invite-only Pegasus Program.  Outbound AI is a conversational AI tool for healthcare with 24/7 virtual agents that focus on the revenue cycle, including eligibility and benefits verification, claims status and prior authorization. The...
'Pasta' mobile diabetes management app by Kakao Healthcare
By  Adam Ang 12:31 am February 2, 2024
Kakao Healthcare has unveiled its latest AI-driven mobile diabetes management app.  Called PASTA (Personalised, Accessible, Supportive, Tech-enabled, and Affordable), the app currently links to two CGM devices: CareSens Air by local manufacturer i-SENS and Dexcom's G7. The app will also pair with the Mallya smart cap for insulin pens by the second quarter.  Once the CGM device is linked, the app...
Two persons in the middle of the street talking to each other using a mobile translator app
By  Adam Ang 10:48 pm December 4, 2023
A new audio recognition system in Japan that was initially developed for business record keeping is now assisting people with difficulty in hearing using generative AI.  Aisin Corporation, a manufacturer of automotive components under Toyota, developed the YYProbe mobile app during the pandemic as a speech-to-text tool for employees to keep business records.  When employees with hearing...
Healthcare provider wearing green scrubs and a stethoscope looking at a tablet in front of an emergency room sign
By  Jessica Hagen 12:40 pm October 2, 2023
Tech giant Microsoft announced a long-term partnership with multistate healthcare system Mercy, which will utilize its Azure OpenAI Service to provide generative AI-assisted communication resources to patients and Mercy employees.  Microsoft's generative AI will be used to help patients understand lab results, schedule appointments and get answers to healthcare-related questions.  Mercy's...