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Microsoft (MSFT, Financials) introduced Dragon Copilot, a voice AI assistant designed to streamline administrative tasks in healthcare, the tech giant said Monday.
Aiming to increase clinician productivity and lower burnout, the solution combines the speech dictation powers of Dragon Medical One with the ambient listening technologies of DAX Copilot.
Part of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, the AI-powered platform provides speech-to-text capability, automated documentation, multilingual support, and AI-generated clinical summaries. It is meant to help medical personnel in inpatient hospitals, ambulatory care, and emergency departments as well as other environments.
Microsoft provided survey data suggesting that U.S. physician fatigue dropped from 53% in 2023 to 48% in 2024. The corporation ascribes part of this drop to technology developments like artificial intelligence-driven automation. Early Dragon Copilot users, according to Microsoft, claimed an average of five minutes saved each patient contact; 70% of doctors said their burnout was lessened and 62% said they were less inclined to quit their companies.
Starting in May, the program is planned to be extensively accessible in the United States and Canada; rollouts in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and the Netherlands will follow. Microsoft said it intends to enter other areas where Dragon Medical is now used.
Leading electronic health record systems and healthcare IT platforms are another interface the AI assistant connects with. Microsoft underlined that Dragon Copilot follows its responsible AI guidelines and integrates protections for data privacy, security, and regulatory compliance with regard for healthcare policies.
The release coincides with health organizations looking to artificial intelligence solutions more and more to handle administrative inefficiencies and manpower shortages.
This article first appeared on GuruFocus.