Collaborations empower the healthcare industry to create a vast array of medical imaging copilot applications that will help enhance radiologists' experiences and contribute to better patient outcomes REDMOND, Wash. , July 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced collaborations with leading academic medical systems Mass General Brigham and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health along with its partnering health system, UW Health, to accelerate solving some of the biggest challenges in radiology and further advance AI in medical imaging to drive clinician efficiency and enable better health outcomes.
The collaborations will foster research and innovation tied to the advancement of high-performing multimodal AI foundation models that empower the entire radiology ecosystem to build on top of the secure Microsoft Azure AI platform and extend the Nuance (a Microsoft company) suite of radiology applications, delivering a wide array of high-value medical imaging copilot applications. Medical imaging plays a crucial role in healthcare. Health systems spend an estimated $65 billion each year on imaging, 1 and approximately 80% of all hospital and health system visits include at least one imaging exam related to more than 23,000 conditions.
2 Faced with challenges that the overall healthcare industry grapples with, including physician burnout and staffing shortages , healthcare organizations are looking to generative AI to help reduce wor.