The health insurer also transitions its data to Microsoft Azure.
21, 2019: Microsoft and Humana ink a seven-year partnership to build modern healthcare solutions for Humana members, such as natural language understanding and speech recognition capabilities for clinical software and workflows. The goal of the partnership is to build a tool that allows clinical documentation to write itself, giving physicians more time to focus on patient care rather than administrative tasks. Under the agreement, Nuance will integrate its speech recognition and processing solutions with Microsoft Azure and Azure AI. 17, 2019: Microsoft and Nuance team up to create the "exam room of the future" using AI and other technologies. 1, 2019: Novartis taps Microsoft to help establish an AI innovation lab, which researchers will combine Microsoft's AI technology and Novartis' life sciences expertise to accelerate the development of new medicines.
19, 2019: Microsoft nominates Emma Walmsley, CEO of vaccine and medicine development company GlaxoSmithKline, to join its board of directors. 6, 2019: Microsoft and AstraZeneca launch the AI Factory for Health, an accelerator program for early-stage companies using AI to address issues in healthcare. 6, 2019: Northwell Health begins rolling out Microsoft Teams cloud-based communication platform for secure messaging between clinicians at the New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based health system. Rhew served as CMO and vice president for enterprise healthcare at Samsung. 13, 2019: Microsoft names David Rhew, MD, an adjunct primary care and population health professor at Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine, as its new CMO and vice president of healthcare. The companies' goal is to build supercomputing software to address global health and education issues such as climate change.Īug. July 23, 2019: Microsoft invests $1 billion in a partnership with OpenAI, a San Francisco-based company co-founded by Elon Musk to develop artificial general intelligence. The goal of the new facility, which Providence CEO Rod Hochman referred to as "hospital of the future," is to improve its EHR system so physicians, nurses and other providers can find information more easily. July 9, 2019: CNBC reports that Providence and Microsoft are in the early stages of building a high-tech hospital in the Seattle area, close to the tech giant's headquarters. July 8, 2019: Renton, Wash.-based Providence enters into a multiyear partnership with Microsoft, implementing its cloud platform Azure as well as AI tools to help manage the health system's electronic health data. June 7, 2019: Microsoft forms an artificial intelligence "Innovation Digital Alliance" with the city of Louisville, providing support to local healthcare and manufacturing industries as they implement AI and other advanced technologies. The timeline includes Microsoft's healthcare moves since June 2019. Here's a breakdown of Microsoft's healthcare ventures, acquisitions, product developments, partnerships and hiring trends reported by Becker's Hospital Review. In the past year, Microsoft has grown its healthcare presence with the launch of its healthcare cloud offering and partnerships with industry players such as Humana and Nuance. 100 of the largest hospitals and health systems in America | 2021.Past Issues - Becker's Clinical Leadership & Infection Control.Current Issue - Becker's Clinical Leadership & Infection Control.Becker’s Digital Health + Health IT Podcast.Becker's Cardiology + Heart Surgery Podcast.