Microsoft Promotion of its healthcare artificial intelligence tools is being provided.
The company unveiled a new sound-activated AI assistant on Monday, which combines the capabilities of its command solution, Dragon Medical One and environmental listening solutions, DAX co-pilotbecome a tool.
According to the company, “Dragon Copilot” will be able to help doctors quickly get information from medical sources and automatically draft clinical notes, letters of recommendation, post-visit summary, and more. This is Microsoft’s latest effort to help health care workers reduce their hard paperwork, a major source of burnout in the industry.
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“With this technology, clinicians will have the ability to focus on patients rather than computers, which will lead to better outcomes and ultimately provide better health care for all,” said David Rhew, PhD, global chief medical officer of Microsoft, in a briefing with reporters on Thursday.
Microsoft acquires Nuance Communications, the company behind Dragon Medical One and Dax Copilot, about $16 billion result. As a result, Microsoft has become Fierce competition As health systems have been looking for tools to help solve burnout, the AI transcription market exploded in popularity.
DAX Copilot, such as AI scribes, allows doctors to draft clinical notes in real time when they record their visits with patients. Microsoft said last month, DAX Copilot had been used in over 3 million of 600 healthcare organizations.
Other companies such as Abridge have raised more than $460 million toneand Suki, it almost raised $170 milliondeveloped similar transcription tools. Microsoft’s updated interface can help its competitors stand out.
Dragon Copilot can be accessed through a mobile app, browser or desktop and integrated directly with several different electronic health records, the company said.
Kenn Harper, general manager of Microsoft Dragon Products, told reporters over the phone that clinicians can still draft clinical notes like they did with Dax Copilot, but they will be able to edit documents in natural language and prompt further.
For example, a doctor might ask such as “A patient has ear pain?” or “Can you add ICD-10 code to the assessment and planning?” Doctors can also propose a wider range of treatment-related queries such as “Will the patient be screened for lung cancer?” and through links to resources such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Wellspan Health, which has been testing Dragon Copilot with a group of clinicians in recent months, has been treating patients at all 250 locations and nine hospitals in Central Pennsylvania and Maryland.
One of the clinicians is David Gasperack, PhD, chief medical officer of WellSpan Primary Health Services. It’s still early, but Gasperack told CNBC that the Assistant is easy to use and is more accurate than Microsoft’s existing products.
“Over time, we’re increasingly asking us to perform more administrative tasks that will lift us out of patient relationships and medical decisions,” Gasperack said. “This allows us to go back to that so we can focus on patients and really think about what we need.”
Microsoft refused to share the cost of Dragon Boat, but said the pricing structure was “competitive”. The company added that existing customers can easily upgrade to new products.
Microsoft said the United States and Canada will usually be available in the United States and Canada starting in May. In the coming months, the promotion will expand to the UK, the Netherlands, France and Germany.
“Our goal remains to return to the pleasure of practicing medicine for clinicians and to provide a better experience for patients around the world,” Rhew said.
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