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AI Frontiers: AI for health and the future of research with Peter Lee
| Peter Lee and Ashley Llorens
The second episode of AI Frontiers features Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research. Lee was among a group within Microsoft to have early access to GPT-4 for evaluation and experimentation. Here, he applies his philosophy of tackling research from what…
In the news | New England Journal of Medicine
Benefits, Limits, and Risks of GPT-4 as an AI Chatbot for Medicine
Chatbots are computer programs with which one can have a conversation. In this article, the authors describe how the GPT-4 chatbot, which has been given a general education, could affect the practice of medicine.
In the news | Flagship Pioneering
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Healthcare and Biotech
AI has a massive role to play in the big leaps ahead for biotech and human health from enabling us to explore biology in ways never before possible to speeding up the pace at which we discover and deliver new…
Biomedical Research Platform Terra Now Available on Microsoft Azure
| Ilyana Rosenberg, Jer-Ming Chia, and Chaitanya Bangur
We stand at the threshold of a new era of precision medicine, where health and life sciences data hold the potential to dramatically propel and expand our understanding and treatment of human disease. One of the tools that we believe…
In the news | Forbes
Microsoft Is Aggressively Investing In Healthcare AI
Earlier this month, healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) company Paige announced a new partnership with renowned technology giant, Microsoft. Paige describes itself as a company at the forefront of technology and healthcare, especially in the field of cancer diagnostics and pathology.…
Awards | Intelligent Health
Junaid Bajwa makes Intelligent Health 2022 Top 55 Innovators list
Junaid Bajwa, Chief Medical Scientist, Health Futures team, made the Intelligent Health community’s top 55 Innovators 2022 list.
In the news | Financial Times
Doing more with less: how one hospital has adapted to NHS crisis
Not all the interventions are so simple. In the radiotherapy department, oncologist Dr Raj Jena explained that when a patient comes in for curative radiotherapy it can take up to two hours to mark up the tumor in order to…
Research Focus: Week of October 24, 2022
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Microsoft is thrilled to announce the 2022 Microsoft Research Global PhD Fellows…
In the news | Microsoft in Business Blogs
Safer sharing of health records with SMART Health Cards
Built on Microsoft Azure, WA Verify uses SMART Health Cards to display vaccination records as a verifiable QR code that can be printed or stored on a mobile device. SMART Health Cards are a secure alternative to inconvenient and easily…