Microsoft Dragon Copilot: AI Healthcare Assistant for Dictation & Clinical Notes

Microsoft's Dragon Copilot uses AI for healthcare dictation and notes, reducing clinician burnout.
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Microsoft Dragon Copilot: AI Healthcare Assistant for Dictation & Clinical Notes
Microsoft has announced Microsoft Dragon Copilot, an AI system for healthcare that can, among other things, listen to and create notes based on clinical visits. The system combines voice-dictating and ambient listening tech created by AI voice company Nuance, which Microsoft bought in 2021. Image: Microsoft According to Microsoft’s announcement, the new system can help its users streamline their documentation through features like “multilanguage ambient note creation” and natural language dictation. Its AI assistant offers “general-purpose medical information searches from trusted content sources,” as well as the ability to automate tasks like “conversational orders, note and clinical evidence summaries, referral letters, and after visit summaries.” The goal of all of this is to “free clinicians from much of the administrative burden of healthcare” so they can focus on patient care, according to Joe Petro, Microsoft VP of Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Solutions and Platforms. Micros…