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In the news | Official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft for Healthcare: Empowering our customers and partners to provide better experiences, insights and care
At Microsoft, our goal within healthcare is to empower people and organizations to address the complex challenges facing the healthcare industry today. We help do this by co-innovating and collaborating with our customers and partners as a trusted technology provider.…
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
Microsoft for Healthcare: new people, products, and partnerships
In healthcare and life sciences, advances in research and technology development are providing a deeper understanding of human health and leading to more effective ways to prevent and treat disease. At the same time, the shifting landscape of the business…
In the news | Healthcare Digital
Microsoft : The Chatbot Opportunity in Healthcare
It’s not hard to see why this innovation triggers excitement in the NHS. Chatbots can ease staffing issues, triage patients to the correct services, and source intelligent information for patients to their smart devices whenever they need it.
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
Microsoft is at HIMSS 2019: Champions of Health Unite
Every year, the health industry’s brightest innovators come to HIMSS to educate, intrigue, and inspire attendees with fresh ideas and creative solutions to some of the most prevalent and persistent challenges in modern health. This year, I am excited that…
In the news | GeekWire
Microsoft Healthcare reveals more of its strategy with new cloud and AI products for hospitals
Microsoft is expanding its healthcare offerings with three new tools that bring its cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities into hospitals through team collaboration, bots and health record sharing. The new products are the latest step toward Microsoft’s broader healthcare ambitions,…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft rolls out healthcare bot service, new health-record integration feature
Microsoft is showing off some of the new healthcare tools and capabilities it will be showcasing next week at the annual Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. The company is making generally available its Healthcare Bot Service; adding more…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s Healthcare Bot service becomes generally available in Azure Marketplace
A chatbot to complement a doctor’s visit? It’s not as radical as it sounds. Hospitals and health systems have plenty of incentive to further adoption of AI conversational agents; according to a survey published by research firm Statista, 27 percent…
In the news | Microsoft Transform
Skip the hold music and meet Premera Scout, a chatbot that helps you with health care
The Health Bot service empowers health care organizations to build intelligent and compliant virtual health assistants and chatbots that improve processes, outcomes and self-service options, and reduce costs
In the news | The New York Times
How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care
Peter Lee says Microsoft is focusing on what people in the health care world are doing today and how the company can make it better.