Microsoft and Epic have extended their already long-standing strategic collaboration, by now combining Azure OpenAI Service with Epic’s Electronic Health Record software. This collaboration has the goal of increasing productivity and improving patient care, and implementing financial stability in global healthcare systems. The first result to deploy from this integration is the ability for healthcare organizations to draft automated messages for providers.
These organizations have seen success in reducing costs and increasing operational efficiency, thanks to this implementation. UW Health’s Chief Information Officer, Chero Goswami said it best, “Integrating generative AI into our daily workflows will increase productivity for many of our providers, and grant them the ability to concentrate on higher-level clinical duties.”
Additionally, by integrating OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology with Epic’s SlicerDicer reporting tool, healthcare organizations can now have a more flexible, intuitive and conversational way to analyze data. Such reports can provide the necessary information to help reduce costs and increase profitability.
Industry professionals know the importance of decreasing costs and increasing margin sustainability, because of the significant challenges in upturning the economic deficits of U.S. Hospitals. Microsoft seeks to improve the health care industry through this co-innovation and ensure responsible AI is met.
Microsoft also emphasizes on responsible AI principles such as fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability. Such principles are set to ensure AI is used for its intended purpose and for its intended audiences.
Eric Boyd, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s AI Platform, states “Our expanded partnership builds on a long history of collaboration between Microsoft, Nuance and Epic, including our work to help healthcare organizations migrate their Epic environments to Azure. Together we can help providers deliver significant clinical and business outcomes leveraging the power of the Microsoft Cloud and Epic.”
Organizations can learn more about this new collaboration and AI-powered solutions at the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference in Chicago.
Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT) is a leader in the technology industry, that empowers everyone and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Epic is a software company that focuses on developing programs to improve public health, keep people safe and healthy, and help upcoming generations become healthier as a whole.
Seth Hain is a Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Epic, and is behind the new partnership between Microsoft and Epic.
