Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) and Microsoft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deepen collaboration in generative AI and cloud innovation.
They are developing Secure GPT for Healthcare Professionals powered by Azure OpenAI Service to enable healthcare workers to generate insights and automate tasks for greater efficiency.
The MOU brings together the partners’ different capabilities, competencies, ideas, and resources to improve the day-to-day work experience for healthcare professionals and enhance the patient experience via innovations in generative AI and cloud.
It covers learning and discovery, collaboration in the entire innovation lifecycle, using Azure and security technologies, improving clinical and operational insights through Microsoft Azure intelligent data platform and Azure OpenAI service, and harnessing Microsoft 365 on cloud.
“The intelligent collaboration tools on cloud and AI-powered platforms will not just deliver greater convenience to clinicians, it will enable better focus on patient-centric work and change the way individuals take control of their health and health outcomes”, said Ngiam Siew Ying, Chief Executive Officer of IHiS.
“The Secure GPT for Healthcare Professionals will be the first of several innovations with Microsoft. What we are seeing now is only the start, as the technology improves and evolves for use in ways that will reimagine the future of health for the greater good,” she added.
Use cases will include greater automation of tasks and transformation of clinician workflows, such as summarising clinician notes and generating responses to queries on healthcare protocols to enable healthcare professionals to better focus on direct patient care.
“As generative AI becomes an integral part of our work and daily lives, I’m confident that the strength and depth of our collaboration with IHiS have set foundations of trust that will fuel our work across Microsoft, as we solve the toughest healthcare challenges of our world today,” said Lee Hui Li, Singapore Managing Director of Microsoft.
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