Last year, OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil indicated that 2025 would be the year agentic AI systems hit the mainstream. And as it now seems, major tech corporations in the AI landscape, including Microsoft, OpenAI, and Salesforce are rushing to ship agents to bridge gaps in the workplace:
“I think 2025 is going to be the year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream.”
More recently, Microsoft unveiled Dragon Copilot, an AI-powered tool designed to make work easier for medical service providers by sourcing important information from medical files. The tool also drafts clinical notes, referral letters, and post-visit summaries automatically.
Microsoft highlights the capabilities highlighted below as the tool’s unique selling points:
- Streamline documentation: Clinicians can take advantage of multilanguage ambient note creation, automated tasks and multilanguage support, personalized style and formatting, natural language dictation capabilities, speech memos, editing, customized texts, templates, AI prompts, and more in one singular user interface.
- Surface information: The embedded AI assistant functionality allows clinicians to conduct general-purpose medical information searches from trusted content sources.
- Automate tasks: New capabilities allow clinicians to automate key tasks, such as conversational orders, note and clinical evidence summaries, referral letters, and after-visit summaries, in one centralized workspace.
According to corporate VP of Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Solutions and Platforms, Joe Petro:
“At Microsoft, we have long believed that AI has the incredible potential to free clinicians from much of the administrative burden in healthcare and enable them to refocus on taking care of patients. With the launch of our new Dragon Copilot, we are introducing the first unified voice AI experience to the market, drawing on our trusted, decades-long expertise that has consistently enhanced provider wellness and improved clinical and financial outcomes for provider organizations and the patients they serve.”
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“No one becomes a clinician to do paperwork, but it’s becoming a bigger and bigger administrative burden, taking time and attention away from actually treating and supporting patients,” added Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during Dragon Copilot’s launch.
For context, the AI health tool ships with a natural language voice dictation, Dragon Medical One, an ambient listening solution, and DAX Copilot.
The salient features will help alleviate clinical burnout by automating redundant and mundane tasks that would have otherwise consumed a significant amount of time, which can then be allocated to more pressing issues.
According to a separate study, clinical burnout in the United States reportedly dropped from 53% to 48% due to technological advances in the health sector.
Microsoft believes Dragon Copilot to help reduce clinical burnout among professionals more.
With Dragon Copilot, we’re not just enhancing how we work in the EHR — we’re tapping into a Microsoft-powered ecosystem where AI assistance extends across our organization, delivering a consistent and intelligent experience everywhere we work. It’s this ability to enhance the patient experience while streamlining clinician workflows that makes Dragon Copilot such a game-changer.
Dr. R. Hal Baker, senior VP, WellSpan Health
To that end, it remains unclear how much Dragon Copilot will cost. While speaking to CNBC, Microsoft indicated that the offering’s price will be “competitive” and that existing customers will have an easy time upgrading.
The tool is expected to ship to broad availability for users in the United States and Canada in May. Additionally, it’s expected to ship to users in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany shortly after.
