Duke Health and Microsoft introduced a five-year partnership to look at the potential of generative AI and cloud expertise to enhance healthcare in addition to create the Duke Health AI Innovation Lab and Center of Excellence. 

Microsoft will practice Duke to develop a cloud-savvy IT workforce and assemble a safe cloud setting. At the identical time, Duke will make the most of Microsoft’s Azure cloud for scientific care, additional developments in analysis and schooling, and promote well being fairness. 

The companions will even create the Duke Health AI Innovation Lab and Center of Excellence, geared toward accountable and moral AI and cloud expertise deployment.

“The partnership is a milestone in the evolution of digital health care,” Dr. Jeffrey Ferranti, senior vice chairman and chief digital officer of Duke Health, mentioned in a press release. “Our unrivaled expertise in data science, patient care, and technology innovation synergizes perfectly with Microsoft’s healthcare solutions and AI technology. Together, we are poised to propel Duke into the forefront of digitally-focused health systems while simultaneously studying the reliability and safety of generative AI in healthcare.”

THE LARGER TREND

Earlier this week, Microsoft introduced a partnership with OpenAI, Google and AI security and analysis firm Anthropic to type the Frontier Model Forum. This physique will deal with making certain the secure and accountable improvement of large-scale machine studying fashions able to surpassing the capabilities of present AI fashions, also called frontier fashions. 

In June, Stanford Medicine and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence announced its launch of Responsible AI for Safe and Equitable Health (RAISE-Health), aimed to decipher moral and questions of safety in AI innovation, convene consultants on the subject and outline requirements for the trade.