People are flooding AI chatbots with health questions. Microsoft is teaming up with Mayo Clinic to help
Microsoft and Mayo Clinic are collaborating to develop an AI model trained on medical data, aiming to improve healthcare outcomes by providing accurate health advice to patients and clinicians. The project will initially focus on internal testing before potential broader use, as concerns grow over the reliability of general AI chatbots for medical guidance.
Microsoft and Mayo Clinic are partnering to create an AI model specifically trained on medical data, including patient records, research, and clinician expertise. The goal is to produce more reliable health advice for both patients and healthcare providers, addressing concerns about inaccuracies in mainstream AI chatbots. Mayo Clinic CEO Gianrico Farrugia stated that the collaboration combines the right data and expertise to enhance healthcare outcomes, though the model will take years to develop and refine. The model will initially be available to Mayo Clinic professionals for testing before broader deployment. It could eventually power AI tools for clinicians and a patient-facing assistant through the hospital’s online portal, helping users understand diagnoses, care next steps, or preventive measures. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman emphasized that accuracy for high-stakes health questions will require extensive training and validation. Mayo Clinic has already used anonymized patient data in smaller AI models for detecting diseases like heart disease and diagnosing pancreatic cancer. The partnership leverages Microsoft’s AI and cloud computing resources to scale the project, which both organizations are committing to long-term without disclosing funding details. Competitors like Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI are also developing AI health tools, but Mayo Clinic’s decades of medical research and patient data may give this initiative an advantage. The project aims to eventually license the technology to other healthcare institutions, though widespread consumer use remains years away.
This content was automatically generated and/or translated by AI. It may contain inaccuracies. Please refer to the original sources for verification.