Google, Microsoft execs: AI should be designed to support, not replace, clinicians - MedCity News

Google and Microsoft, rivals in cloud computing, have turned their attention to healthcare as they look to win over hospital systems as customers. Google has struck long-running partnerships with insurer Highmark, where it plans to build tools to help patients to share health information between visits, and Mayo Clinic, where it is tasked with developing a suite of AI solutions. Microsoft, in the meantime, made one of its largest acquisitions to date, with its $19.7 billion purchase of clinical documentation company Nuance. At MedCity INVEST Digital Health, leaders from both companies talked about their interoperability efforts and the future of AI in healthcare. Both rivals agreed on one thing: that these solutions should serve as a support, not a replacement, for clinicians.