ai in healthcare

Ryche Pharmacy’s shelves are quieter and its ledger looks healthier since the store began using an AI app called Zendawa, a Kenyan startup that pairs inventory automation, delivery routing and business intelligence with Microsoft Copilot and Power BI — and the savings are already tangible for...

OpenAI’s new analysis, summarized in a short Computerworld item this week, confirms what many clinicians and technologists have suspected for months: a very large and growing cohort of people now treats ChatGPT as a first-stop health resource. According to the OpenAI-backed report “AI as a...

Microsoft’s latest prognosis — a seven‑point map of AI trends that the company says will shape the year ahead — marks a transition from AI as a toolbox to AI as a collaborator, an infrastructure redesign, and a new compute axis that includes quantum‑hybrid models. Background Microsoft’s forecast...

Microsoft’s internal Copilot usage study — an analysis of roughly 37.5 million anonymized conversations — and today’s avalanche of product announcements from Shopify and Adobe together make one thing unavoidable: conversational AI is no longer an experiment contained to code generation and...

When a widely shared photograph of a Philippine lawmaker surfaced online this month, many users did what comes naturally now: they asked an AI assistant to verify it — and the assistant said it was real, even though the image had been created by an AI and later traced to its creator. This...

IntelePeer’s announcement that it has integrated Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB into its conversational and agentic AI platform marks a practical, production-focused step toward lowering latency, simplifying operations, and scaling Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) and semantic search for...

IntelePeer’s announcement that it has integrated Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB into its conversational and agentic AI platform signals a concrete, production‑focused step toward lowering latency, simplifying operations, and bringing Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) and semantic search into...

IntelePeer’s announcement that it has integrated Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB into its conversational and agentic AI platform signals a pragmatic step toward making low-latency, production-grade AI interactions a reality for multi-location healthcare providers — and it rewrites several practical...

A watershed shift is underway: more patients are turning to conversational A.I. for medical guidance, and that change is transforming triage, patient education, and the first line of care — but it is also exposing patients, clinicians, and health systems to new and sometimes underappreciated...

The shop floor is no longer a separate world of paper logs and two‑way radios; it’s a live, cloud‑connected workspace where alerts, videos, maintenance tickets, and work instructions arrive in the same pane of glass—often inside Microsoft Teams—giving frontline operators, maintenance crews, and...

Apple’s software roadmap is quietly pivoting toward a more aggressive, services-driven AI strategy: the company is preparing an AI-powered web search capability and an AI health agent as part of Apple Intelligence, with a staged Siri overhaul that begins in iOS 26.4 and culminates in a larger...

August AI’s decision to rebuild on Microsoft Azure marks a defining moment for startup healthcare AI: the Bengaluru-based company migrated several terabytes of patient data to a new Azure architecture in three months with no reported customer downtime, scaled from roughly 500,000 users to a...

Infosys’ new AI Agent promises to turn messy, real‑time operational feeds into conversational, actionable guidance for field teams, automating report generation and surfacing predictive warnings to reduce delays, improve wellbore quality, and boost safety and reliability across energy...

Microsoft’s recent AI moves — an aggressive push into specialized, superhuman medical AI and a visible commercial tie-up with Boeing to bring Microsoft Flight Simulator and Azure into airline training — mark a decisive moment in the company’s strategy to convert platform strength into...

Microsoft’s move is simple in language but seismic in ambition: build a new AI research group that aims to produce powerful, domain‑focused systems that are explicitly designed to remain under human control and to solve real‑world problems. The MAI Superintelligence Team, announced by Microsoft...

Microsoft’s AI leadership has just announced a new, deliberately constrained path toward “superintelligence” — one framed not as an open-ended race to omniscience but as Humanist Superintelligence (HSI): advanced, domain-focused systems designed explicitly to serve people and societal priorities...

The NHS’s recent pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot produced headline figures that are hard to ignore: participants reported an average saving of 43 minutes per staff member per working day, and sponsors modelled that, if scaled, the technology could reclaim around 400,000 staff hours every month —...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update reframes the assistant from a transactional answer engine into a social, persistent, and domain‑aware companion — shipping a dozen headline features (Groups, Imagine, long‑term Memory & Connectors, Mico, Real Talk, Learn Live, Copilot for Health, Journeys &...

Microsoft has given Copilot a new face — an expressive, floating blob called Mico — and a suite of social and safety features that push the assistant from a solo chatbot toward a more conversational, collaborative, and opinionated presence on your PC and phone. The Fall release bundles Mico with...

A major trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot across NHS organisations has produced headline numbers that are hard to ignore: participants reported saving an average of 43 minutes per day, and the trial sponsors modelled that, if scaled, the technology could reclaim around 400,000 hours of staff time...