Health systems continue to partner with Big Tech on AI and cybersecurity projects. Here are nine collaborations Becker’s reported on in the past month.
1. Rather than bolting AI on, Charleston S.C.-based MUSC Health is pursuing a platform-first strategy that embeds it directly into Epic, Microsoft and other enterprise systems, the organization’s new CIO told Becker’s for an Oct. 21 story.
2. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care plans to pilot a deeper connection between the Atropos Evidence Agent, which generates evidence-based insights tailored to each patient, and Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot for ambient clinical documentation, according to an Oct. 20 news release.
3. Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health has expanded its AI-powered clinical note summarization tool to 12 medical specialties, becoming the first U.S. health system to deploy a Google Gemini-based AI agent at scale, according to an Oct. 16 news release.
4. The Coalition for Health AI, which includes Microsoft and health systems such as Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Durham, N.C.-based Duke University System for Health, is pushing back after senior White House and HHS officials accused the organization of overstepping its role in healthcare AI policy, describing it as a potential “regulatory cartel,” Becker’s reported Oct. 10.
5. Atrium Health Union in Monroe, N.C., part of Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, received a $100,000 award Oct. 8 from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for a program that will leverage virtual reality to train nurses how to use ambient listening for EHR documentation (aka Microsoft’s Project Nursing).
6. The Digital Medicine Society partnered with Google for Health and more than 30 healthcare, technology and policy organizations — including Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente; Pittsburgh-based UPMC Enterprises; Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center; and OpenNotes at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — to release a new guide Oct. 8 to help health systems implement AI responsibly.
7. Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center has formed a nursing AI subgroup to lead education and adoption of Microsoft Copilot Chat, Becker’s reported Oct. 2.
8. The Cancer AI Alliance — which includes Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Seattle-based Fred Hutch Cancer Center, New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Baltimore-based Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia — launched a collaborative AI platform for cancer research Oct. 1.
9. The American Hospital Association and Microsoft introduced new and updated cybersecurity offerings for rural hospitals Sept. 26 as part of the latter’s “Rural Health Resiliency” program.
