In the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape of today, artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming patient care by enabling more personalized experiences, Streamlining vast medical data management, and ultimately improving patient outcomes. As challenges such as rising patient expectations, complex data handling, and regulatory requirements continue to intensify, the need for more advanced solutions has become increasingly essential.
Microsoft is at the forefront of this transformation, dedicated to developing and implementing responsible AI technologies. Through Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, we foster innovation and collaboration, reinforcing how responsible AI can enhance healthcare delivery and improve outcomes for patients worldwide. Building on this commitment, we are excited to introduce new features in our AI healthcare portfolio that will further drive industry efficiencies and better patient outcomes.
Advanced AI Models and Integrations for Healthcare
As medical technology advances, improvements in medical imaging are critical for better disease diagnosis and improved patient care. In 2024, we announced the launch of healthcare AI models, a collection of cutting-edge multimodal medical imaging foundation models available in Azure AI Foundry. The MedImageParse 2D model is designed for precise image segmentation and covers many imaging modalities, including x-rays, CTs, MRIs, ultrasounds, dermatology images, and pathology slides. It can be fine-tuned for specific applications such as tumor segmentation or organ delineation, allowing developers to test and validate the ability to leverage AI for highly targeted cancer and other disease detection, diagnostics, and treatment planning.
Today, we are excited to share that the MedImageParse model is now optimized for 3D medical imaging data. MedImageParse 3D can handle complex 3D datasets produced by advanced imaging, such as MRI and CT scans, providing a more comprehensive view into patients’ conditions. This enhanced ability to visualize and interpret anatomical abnormalities and structures provides for much more accurate diagnosis that may have been missed by 2D analysis. MedImageParse can also support healthcare researchers with comprehensive image analysis and a more streamlined workflow for radiologists, improving overall efficiency and reducing human error. MedImageParse 3D can soon be found in the Azure AI Foundry model catalog.
In partnership with Microsoft Research, the Microsoft Health and Life Sciences model catalog will also feature several new and updated multimodal medical foundation models, including TamGen for protein design, Hist-ai for pathology, and ECG-FM for electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis.
Leveraging Multimodal AI for Improved Health Insights
Today, we are excited to announce new functionality in healthcare data solutions that allows customers to orchestrate multimodal AI insights directly into Microsoft Fabric. Now in public preview, orchestrating multiple modalities (e.g., text, image, audio, video, and other forms of sensory input) of health data within Fabric allows healthcare organizations to generate a robust set of insights that help with faster decision-making and improved patient outcomes.
Customers can leverage Fabric to orchestrate multimodal AI insights by connecting their healthcare data to a variety of AI services and models. These AI-generated insights are then integrated back into the healthcare data estate to enable various use cases like creating targeted outreach and care plans by enriching clinical conversations with social determinants of health (SDOH) and sentiments. Another possible scenario is deriving quick insights and disease progression trends for clinical research by creating image segmentations and combining it with imaging metadata through Microsoft Power BI reports.
The orchestration capability includes five out-of-the-box examples to help customers connect and integrate with AI models:
- Text Analytics for Health in Azure AI Language to extract medical entities from unstructured data such as diagnoses and medications, and the relations between entities.
- MedImageInsight AI Model in Azure AI Foundry to generate medical image embeddings from imaging data.
- MedImageParse AI Model in Azure AI Foundry enables segmentation, detection, and recognition from imaging data across numerous object types and imaging modalities.
- Sentiment Analysis with Azure OpenAI Service to score sentiment for categories such as doctors’ services, staff services, facilities, and cost from conversational data.
- SDOH Extraction with Azure OpenAI to extract social determinants of health data from conversational data based on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ defined categories.
To further enhance data accessibility, we are pleased to share the general availability of additional functionality that enhances the existing capabilities within our healthcare data solutions offering. These include:
- Care Management Analytics: By using unified healthcare data and care management analytical templates, healthcare providers can enhance patient care by identifying high-risk individuals, optimizing treatment plans, and improving care coordination.
- Patient Outreach Analytics: Healthcare providers can communicate with their patients more effectively by orchestrating personalized journeys across patient touchpoints.
- Dragon Copilot Ambient AI Integration: Dragon Copilot’s AI-powered, voice-enabled capabilities reduce the administrative workload of clinicians by automatically documenting patient encounters.
“There is a lot of unrealized value in patient-physician interactions. OSUMC is aiming to leverage conversational data along with multimodal AI insights in healthcare data solutions such as social determinants of health extraction to improve patient outcomes.”
—Ravi Dyta, Director of IT at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Achieve More with AI You Can Trust
This week’s Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare announcements underscore our commitment to transforming healthcare through advanced AI models and data integrations. By leveraging these cutting-edge technologies, we are empowering healthcare organizations to deliver better care, help improve patient outcomes, and drive innovation in the industry.
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David Ardman is responsible for building the Healthcare and Life Sciences (HLS) Data and AI Platform that powers both 1st party Microsoft solutions as well as our Healthcare clients and partners through third-party cloud services.
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