Health systems continue to turn to Big Tech companies to move their data to the cloud, test AI in clinical settings and build guardrails around how it is used.
Here are six collaborations involving Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia reported on in the past month:
1. Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has partnered with Microsoft to evaluate the company’s AI diagnostic system in real-world care, TechCrunch reported Oct. 22. Patients who consent will use the system, called Diagnostic Orchestrator, or DxO, alongside their standard care, and Microsoft and its partners will compare its recommendations with those of their physicians, Dominic King, vice president of health at Microsoft AI, told the publication. The partnership surfaced the same day Microsoft published a study in Science finding DxO correctly diagnosed 83.2% of complex New England Journal of Medicine cases, compared with 36.1% for generalist physicians using search and reference tools. Microsoft funded the study, and all of its authors are company employees.
2. Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital fine-tuned Nvidia’s Nemotron open model to screen large language model traffic against the health system’s own risk and privacy standards, Palantir Technologies said in an Oct. 21 announcement. Tampa General did the work through Palantir’s partnership with Nvidia, improving model performance by 7% and cutting latency by a factor of 22, according to Palantir. The model runs locally, keeping sensitive data and processing in-house as the health system expands its use of AI.
3. Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health is working with Microsoft and Accenture on a multiyear initiative to move data from its EHR and other clinical, operational and research systems to a unified Microsoft Azure platform, according to an Oct. 15 news release. Accenture will introduce agentic AI tools designed to automate complex workflows, and UMass Memorial expects the effort to strengthen security and lower long-term infrastructure costs. The organizations did not disclose financial terms or a timeline.
4. Camden, N.J.-based Cooper Norcross Health is piloting Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot ambient AI tool for nursing documentation, making it the first hospital in New Jersey to join the program, NJBIZ reported Oct. 7, citing a health system news release. Nurses create an ambient recording on a mobile device during patient interactions, and the tool pulls clinically relevant details into structured flowsheet entries that nurses review before they are filed. Patients consent before any recording begins.
5. Amazon Web Services awarded more than $1.8 million in cash and cloud computing credits to 11 organizations through its 2026 AWS Imagine Grant Children’s Health Innovation Award, the company said Oct. 5. Five recipients are children’s hospitals: Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio; Seattle Children’s Hospital; Cook Children’s Health Care System in Fort Worth, Texas; Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Va.; and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Nationwide Children’s will expand a machine learning platform that has cut time to genetic diagnosis by 50% for critically ill infants to six more neonatal intensive care units in central Ohio. Lurie Children’s will use Amazon Bedrock to turn hundreds of pages of outside records into summaries for pediatric transplant care.
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