Tech giants unveil new AI tools for healthcare

Microsoft and Google have introduced new features for their healthcare cloud products, with the goal of integrating data from diverse sources like EHR, lab, revenue cycle, and more. This integration allows organisations to extract insights from various data sets and establish standardised processes.

Google Cloud's Vertex AI Search for healthcare and life sciences offers medically-tuned generative AI to search clinical data, including FHIR data and clinical notes. Microsoft's Fabric offers industry-specific healthcare solutions that streamline data integration, reducing the cost and time involved in merging disconnected health data sources like text, images, and video.

Healthcare organisations need to move their on-premise applications or application data to a specific cloud provider to extract insights from diverse data sources effectively.

Google is pairing Vertex AI with Med-PaLM 2, enabling clinicians to ask specific questions about a patient's condition and medical history without having to read through extensive notes, potentially saving time and reducing clinical burnout.

Both Google and Microsoft aim to address the challenge of healthcare data spread across various formats and locations by leveraging their search engine technology for healthcare.