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When healthcare organizations move away from resource-intensive, point-to-point integrations, they can embrace the kind of seamless interoperability that enhances both operations and care delivery.

The new Microsoft Copilot Health, which will be available through a phased rollout, is aimed at helping people better understand their health records and wearable data through AI analysis.

Tying together artificial intelligence applications and agents can save time while enhancing patient care and revenue integrity, says the software giant, which plans to showcase an array of new copilot capabilities and real-time intelligence plugins at its booth.

While hospitals and health systems continue to face an array of significant challenges, human-centered innovations that pair data with agility are helping improve caregiver experience and patient care, the research firm says. 

The practice reduced inefficiencies and eliminated dependence on costly third-party call services. Further, the tech reclaimed 20,000 staff hours in those two months – time now used for direct patient support.

Doug Meil, author of The Rise and Fall of Explorys and IBM Watson Health: A Personal Memoir of a Healthcare Moonshot that Misfired, discusses some lessons learned from that era, and offers perspective on where artificial intelligence may be headed next.

Next year, providers within healthcare practices on the company's EHR will be able to choose the new copilot, or any other ambient tool that best suits them, the company says.

As we look to 2026, there's a bright future for well-governed healthcare information to advance artificial intelligence innovation and promote value-based care, an expert says.

Two executives from the St. Louis community health center discuss results of a generative AI pilot designed to enhance interpretation services – extending the reach of multilanguage accessibility to its six FQHCs with large immigrant populations.

Ernst & Young's Kim Dalla Torre offers a fresh look at artificial intelligence in healthcare, the biggest ROI and adoption gains in telehealth and remote patient monitoring, closing health disparities, and compliance and cybersecurity.