Today, Microsoft is introducing Microsoft Dragon Copilot. This is the first AI assistant in a clinical workflow that combines proven natural language speech oral and surrounding listening capabilities using fine-tuned, generated AI and protective guards applied to healthcare. Dragon Copilot, part of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, allows healthcare partners and their customers to unlock new levels of efficiency and care by streamlining documents, surface appropriate information, and allowing clinicians to focus on patients and themselves.
Dragon Copilot Partner Resources
Dragon Copilot is enhanced by collaboration with healthcare industry experts across the broad global ecosystem of trusted partners. We work with leading independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators (SIS) and cloud service providers (CSPs) around the world to help our customers drive better healthcare outcomes.
Unlock new AI use cases with Dragon Copilot
Through partnership with Microsoft, organizations can leverage Dragon Copilot to accelerate innovation and unlock new paths for future business growth through Microsoft's commercial market.
Dragon Copilot's trustworthy AI models are trained in healthcare data and offer the possibilities of many AI solutions. Partners can build even more powerful healthcare solutions and products by leveraging a comprehensive end-to-end toolchain, including Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. Additionally, a single integration into Dragon Copilot expands partner AI clinical use cases across the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, opening up new opportunities for innovation and collaboration.
Embracing innovation with responsible AI
New features in Dragon Copilot are built on a secure data estate and incorporate healthcare-specific clinical, chat and compliance safeguards for accurate and secure AI output. It also helps guide the development and use of AI in line with Microsoft's responsible AI principles. Transparency, reliability and safety, fairness, inclusiveness, accountability, privacy, and security. We develop responsible AI through design and continue to ensure that these technologies have a positive impact on both the healthcare ecosystem and the broader society, and share this journey's learning with our customers.
Together we promote better healthcare outcomes
While our ecosystem of healthcare partners is constantly growing, the highlights below are just a few of the over 30 key partners we already work with Microsoft. We are committed to advancing AI innovation in healthcare with a diverse community of partners ranging from local communities, partner types and specializations.
Independent software vendors
Dragon Copilot empowers ISVs with trusted AI models to create innovative AI-powered use cases along with new revenue channel opportunities through the scalability framework. Several of the industry's leading ISV partners, including Meditech, Chipsoft, Dedalus, Canary Speech and Software Medical Group, are helping to make Dragon Capillot come true.
Leading US-based electronic health provider (EHR) provider Meditech embed Dragon Copilot into a standard EHR solution to improve clinical workflows.
“We understand the challenges clinicians face today, and Dragon Copilot represents an important advance in reducing these burdens. We will integrate this innovative solution directly to streamline the documentation and ordering processes, reduce cognitive overload, and ultimately enable our providers to deliver superior patient-centered care. At Meditech, we are proud to be part of a solution that prioritizes both efficiency and clinician well-being.”
– Meditech's Chief Marketing and Nurse Executive, Cassia Turner
Chipsoft, an EHR provider serving the Dutch-speaking market, is using Dragon Copilot to integrate new healthcare AI applications into EHR Solution HIX to address the growing demand for digital solutions that reduce workloads for healthcare professionals.
“We are excited to provide this cutting-edge AI platform to healthcare professionals to enable them to work more efficiently and effectively. With AI now available on HIX, we are taking an important step in supporting healthcare professionals with administrative burdens. This will help make healthcare more accessible despite increased demand and ongoing staff shortages.”
– Hans Mulder, CEO of ChipSoft
Dedalos, the market leader in the Italian-based European Electronic Medical Record (EMR), integrates Dragon Copilot into EMR solutions to provide healthcare IT innovations to its clients that increase clinical efficiency and improve patient outcomes.
Additionally, Canary Speech, a US-based leader in Voice AI, sees Dragon Copilot as an opportunity to integrate innovative voice technology and Microsoft's robust cloud and AI capabilities, driving advances in early disease detection, mental health assessment, and overall patient care.
“Microsoft's commitment to working with partners helps drive digital transformation in healthcare. (the investment Microsoft makes in its partner ecosystem) helps transform our business to deliver impactful, human-centered solutions.”
– Henry O'Connell, CEO and co-founder of Canary Speech
Software Medical Group, a French healthcare enterprise resource planning (ERP) system provider, offers solutions focused on user needs, including improving nurses' quality of life in the workplace, optimizing care processes, improving organizational efficiency, and improving quality of care.
“We are committed to serving healthcare professionals, designing digital solutions that can help them make informed decisions, maintaining happiness and providing quality patient care. By partnering with Microsoft, we can address the key challenges faced by healthcare organizations by providing innovative tools and applications.”
– Shirley Brosielle, Chief Product and Technology Officer of Softway Medical Group
System Integrator
With a powerful AI infrastructure and technology that works across EMR, Dragon Copilot provides SIS with a strong foundation for new AI use cases and integration. SI partners such as Accenture-Avanade, Kyndryl and Cognizant are at the forefront of AI innovation to name a few.
To increase clinician productivity and provide better patient services, Accenture-Avanade Partnership uses the Generated AI feature driven by Microsoft Copilot for patient history summary, drafting patient responses, and intelligent searching.
“As a partner of Dragon Copilots, we recognize the potential to transform the clinical experience through seamless EHR integration and ongoing support from clinicians. In an industry facing staffing shortages and burnout, Dragon Copilots may reduce administrative burdens, enhance clinician-patient interactions, and increase access to care.”
– Teyash Shah, Maryland, Managing Director and Global Care Reinvention Lead, Accenture Health
Additionally, Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure provider, creates solutions to help healthcare organizations reach peak digital performance.
“Today's announcement is a key milestone in Kindrill's commitment to optimizing clinical workflows and improving patient care through surrounding listening using advanced AI technology. We are excited to be a partner at Microsoft as we tackle clinician burnout and work to improve our overall healthcare experience. By automating daily tasks, we can help clinicians regain valuable time to spend with patients and bring joy back to care.”
– Kindrill, Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences, Trent Sanders
Cognizant aims to integrate Dragon Copilot with Triizetto Provider Solutions, providing clients with cutting-edge capabilities to streamline documents and improve efficiency.
“This innovative solution represents an opportunity to help us change the way our clients deliver care. Dragon Copilot's integrated AI technology aims to increase operational efficiency, reduce clinician burnout, and improve patient care. This partnership with Microsoft highlights our commitment to driving healthcare innovation and delivering exceptional value to our clients.”
– dr. Dr. Scott R. Shell MD MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Cognizant
Cloud Service Provider
Dragon Copilot enables CSPs to reach new markets by leveraging robust AI infrastructure and technology that operate through EHR and EMR to create innovative service services. We partner with CDW, a pioneering CSP partner, conceptually and clinically speaking, to increase healthcare efficiency with Dragon Copilot.
Combined with the power of Microsoft AI, IT Solutions Provider CDW aims to transform the healthcare environment by improving efficiency, enabling timely decisions, and enabling providers to deliver superior patient care.
“Clinician burnout is a major issue for the healthcare organization and patient experience. We are proud to be partnering with Microsoft in researching innovative solutions that address the underlying causes, recognizing the tensions clinicians face in their daily lives. By automating daily tasks, clinicians can redirect their approach to more important aspects of patient care.”
– Mike Grisamore, Vice President of Healthcare, CDW
Ordistiginal, a global value-added distributor based in the Netherlands, helps healthcare organizations with tools to improve operational efficiency and patient experience.
“Ordiginal recognizes the key needs of technology that supports clinicians without disrupting workflows. By partnering with Microsoft at Dragon Copilot, we deliver AI solutions to health professionals around the world, improving quality of care, improving efficiency and enhancing patient outcomes.”
– Jordy Onrust, CEO and Owner of Ordiginal
Clinically speaking, EHR solution providers look forward to integrating the surroundings and generation of Dragon Copilot AI capabilities to advance document solutions and improve healthcare providers' office workflows.
“By combining our critical user base with Microsoft's new AI and surrounding recording capabilities, we are uniquely positioned to bring the greatest benefits of this new technology, clinically speaking.”
– Clinically speaking, Michael Janus
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Cyril Belikoff is the global marketing marketing leader at Microsoft Solutions and Partner Marketing, leading a team driving billions of dollars of business through field sales, marketing and partnerships. Understanding the challenges facing customers can help you transform your company digitally through efficiency, optimization and skill improvements.
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