Microsoft announced the launch of Copilot Health, a new artificial intelligence feature designed to help users better understand their health information by bringing together medical records, wearable data, and personal health history in one place.
The tool is being introduced as a separate, secure space within Copilot that applies AI to interpret a person’s health data and generate insights that can help them prepare for medical appointments and better understand potential health issues. According to Microsoft, Copilot Health is not intended to replace doctors but to help patients arrive at appointments with better context and more informed questions.
Copilot Health aggregates multiple sources of personal health information into a unified profile. This includes activity levels, sleep patterns, vital signs, and other metrics from more than 50 wearable devices such as Apple Health, Oura, and Fitbit. The system can also connect to health records from more than 50,000 hospitals and healthcare provider organizations in the United States through HealthEx, allowing users to access visit summaries, medication lists, and test results in one location. Lab results from Function can also be integrated into the system.
Microsoft said the AI analyzes patterns across these data sources to provide more proactive insights about a person’s health. For example, the system may highlight potential relationships between lifestyle factors such as sleep and other health indicators, helping users identify trends or questions to discuss with clinicians.
The company said its consumer products already respond to more than 50 million health-related questions each day. To improve the reliability of answers, Microsoft said Copilot Health surfaces information from verified medical organizations across more than 50 countries and provides citations along with expert-written answer cards from Harvard Health.
Copilot Health also includes tools to help users find clinicians by specialty, location, language, and insurance coverage using real-time U.S. provider directories.
Microsoft said the technology builds on ongoing research in AI-powered diagnostics, including the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator initiative, which the company said has demonstrated strong results in research environments. The broader goal is to develop AI systems capable of combining the breadth of a general physician’s knowledge with the depth of specialist expertise.
The company emphasized that Copilot Health was designed with strict privacy and security safeguards. Conversations and data within Copilot Health are separated from general Copilot interactions and protected with additional privacy controls, including encryption and strict access management. Microsoft said health data shared with the system will not be used to train AI models.
Copilot Health was developed with Microsoft’s internal clinical team and informed by an external panel of more than 230 physicians across 24 countries. The system also received ISO/IEC 42001 certification, an international standard for AI management systems.
The product is launching through a phased rollout, starting with a waitlist for early users in the United States. Initially, Copilot Health will be available in English to adults aged 18 and older.
KEY QUOTES:
“At some point, we’ve all stared at a test result we didn’t understand. Worn a device that tracked everything but revealed little. Sat in a clinic waiting room with a list of questions we forgot the moment we sat down for a consultation. Felt that quiet, unsettling feeling that something is off – but had nowhere to take it.”
“The truth is that most people don’t need more information. They need help to make sense of what they already have.”
“Today, we’re launching Copilot Health, a separate, secure space within Copilot where medical intelligence makes sense of your information and delivers personalized health insights that you can act on.”
“Copilot Health doesn’t replace your doctor. It makes every minute you have with them count more. You arrive prepared, with the right questions, the right context, and the confidence that comes from better understanding your own body.”
“Your Copilot Health conversations and data are isolated from general Copilot and kept under additional access, privacy, and safety controls.”
Bay Gross, Peter Hames, Chris Kelly, Dominic King, Harsha Nori — Microsoft AI
