Health systems are expanding partnerships with Big Tech companies as they race to deploy AI, modernize infrastructure and improve patient care.
Here are seven collaborations involving Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia reported on in the past month:
1. Google cybersecurity subsidiary Wiz has launched Scan for Good, an AI-driven initiative built with Google DeepMind and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, pairing Wiz’s Red Agent penetration-testing tool with Google DeepMind’s Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber model to scan public-facing systems for exploitable flaws, including at hospitals and other critical infrastructure. In a Sept. 24 blog post, Wiz said the program has already uncovered critical exposures at a public hospital and a private hospital, including one flaw that let anyone online control a hospital’s mobile alert channel. Wiz worked with both organizations to fix the issues before publishing the findings and did not name either hospital.
2. West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., unveiled a technology innovation hub powered by Amazon Web Services, according to a Sept. 15 health system news release. The hub will give Rutgers students access to AWS cloud computing credits and technical mentorship from AWS engineers for four- to 10-week rapid-prototyping projects, with the inaugural cohort working on needs identified by Rutgers faculty and RWJBarnabas clinicians. Operations are slated to begin this fall.
3. Philadelphia-based Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is using open-source AI tools built on MONAI — a medical imaging framework Nvidia cofounded — to model children’s hearts in seconds, Nvidia said in a Sept. 15 blog post. A workflow that once took four hours of manual work by a researcher now runs fast enough for routine use ahead of surgery for complex congenital heart defects. The children’s hospital expects to reach about 200 modeled cases this year, and more than 20 children’s hospitals nationally now run similar cardiac modeling programs.
4. Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Microsoft are collaborating to build a frontier AI model purpose-built for healthcare, an effort Becker’s first reported June 2 and revisited in a Sept. 8 deep dive. The model is designed to draw on imaging, lab results, genetic information and other longitudinal patient data to support earlier diagnoses and more personalized treatment. Mayo will retain ownership of the model, while Microsoft plans to make it available to other health systems through Azure Foundry APIs.
5. Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy has become the first health system to deploy the Android version of Microsoft’s ambient AI documentation tool for nurses, Chief Nurse Executive Stephanie Clements, BSN, RN, told Becker’s for a Sept. 3 story. At three pilot units, the tool was associated with a 22% reduction in flowsheet documentation time per shift. Mercy, which operates more than 50 hospitals, is scaling the rollout with the goal of reaching every medical-surgical unit in its acute care facilities by June 2027.
6. Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health performed the first surgery using Stryker’s SportSuite Vision application on Apple Vision Pro, a hip arthroscopy, according to a Sept. 1 news release. The FDA granted the application De Novo authorization July 17, making it the first technology cleared for intraoperative use with Apple’s headset. The application brings arthroscopic video, imaging and Stryker’s surgical planning software into a single spatial-computing view, reducing reliance on the multiple monitors traditionally used in the operating room.
7. Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System deployed an agentic AI scheduling tool built on Microsoft Azure using Microsoft Foundry across its 11 hospitals, Microsoft said in an Aug. 28 customer story. The tool, called Swift and built by Swift Workforce AI, cut the time nurse managers spend filling open shifts by more than 80% and lifted shift-fill rates 33%, according to the companies.
