Microsoft's focus on transforming healthcare: Intelligent health through AI and the cloud - The Official Microsoft Blog

Healthcare is an industry that touches all of us, given the most basic of human goals: we all want to lead healthy lives. Last year we embarked on Healthcare NExT, a Microsoft initiative which aims to accelerate healthcare innovation through artificial intelligence and cloud computing. By working side-by-side with the healthcare industry's most pioneering players, we are bringing Microsoft's capabilities in groundbreaking research and product development to help healthcare providers, biotech companies and organizations around the world use artificial intelligence (AI) and the cloud to innovate. It's exciting work with unique challenges, and in the lead-up to next week's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, we're announcing a number of solutions, projects and AI accelerators that we believe will help make intelligent health possible, with more details below: We will also continue progress on current Healthcare NExT research-based projects like our Health Bot project as well as our partnerships with UPMC and Adaptive Biotechnologies. Several themes emerge at the convergence of healthcare and technology.