Microsoft is making health its mission.
What’s happening: Spinning off its general AI companion, Microsoft debuted Copilot Health — a tool aggregating and analyzing data from EHRs, wearables, and Function labs for personalized support.
All-knowing. Scraping 37.5M user conversations, the company’s internal research revealed health was already a top Copilot use case, with 40% of questions centered on understanding medical conditions and treatments.
A phased rollout, Copilot Health will translate symptoms, bloodwork, and images into “coherent stories” and actionable advice — factoring insurance, medical history, and emotions. Marking progress toward “medical superintelligence,” Microsoft is prepping a future where omniscient humanistic AI lifts burdens on doctors, patients, and caregivers alike.
Roll call. A growing list of tech giants see health as their end game, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health, Anthropic’s Claude for Healthcare, and Amazon’s Health AI rolling out recently.
Elsewhere, WHOOP and Oura are still strategizing toward systemic clinical integration, while Superpower and Function are leveraging comprehensive labs as a Personal Health OS on-ramp.
Many consumers aren’t tech-fluent or time-rich enough to decipher differences in specs, meaning pricing, partnerships, marketing, and reputation will make winners.
Looking ahead: Doctors will still guide care, but consumers will have the tools to play an active role in their healing journeys — an agentic mindset that in and of itself can improve outcomes.
