Health systems continue to partner with Big Tech companies on AI and cybersecurity initiatives.
Here are nine such collaborations Becker’s reported on in the past month:
1. Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health’s marketing team has developed a secure, custom platform powered by Google Gemini that supports use cases ranging from drafting internal communications and generating social content to simulating audience personas and accelerating message testing, Becker’s reported July 24.
2. Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System has been partnering with Microsoft to scale “secure, ethical and transparent” generative AI tools across its workforce, the health system’s CEO wrote July 23.
3. Microsoft Azure is the most commonly used primary cloud provider among healthcare organizations, followed by Amazon Web Services, while Google Cloud Platform is used by only a small number of organizations and has a limited presence in healthcare, KLAS Research reported July 22.
4. Microsoft Copilot has helped staffers at Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health take meeting notes, create action items, and lessen cognitive load, Becker’s reported July 17.
5. More than 700 rural hospitals have joined Microsoft’s Cybersecurity for Rural Hospitals Program, an initiative aimed at helping small and often underresourced hospitals strengthen their cyber defenses with free or low-cost tools and services, according to a July 15 American Hospital Association blog post.
6. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has created an AI-powered virtual assistant designed to support clinicians with various tasks in its Epic EHR after partnering with Microsoft to deploy Azure, the health system’s CIO posted on LinkedIn in July.
7. Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham and Amazon One Medical continue to expand their collaboration. The two organizations plan to open an Amazon One Medical primary care office in Wellesley, Mass., according to a July 14 Swellesley Report story.
8. Boston-based Tufts Medicine and Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care have found success with migrating their Epic EHRs to the Amazon cloud, according to a July 8 Amazon blog post.
9. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care has launched a pilot program combining ambient AI and real-world data to give physicians clinical evidence within minutes during patient visits, merging ambient AI from Microsoft’s Nuance DAX with technology from Stanford spinout Atropos Health, Becker’s reported July 1.
