Extending AI impact at HLTH 2025: Dragon Copilot scales across care teams, partners, and geographies
Healthcare is undergoing a profound shift from point solutions to platform-powered, teamwide transformation. At HLTH 2025, we’re spotlighting how Microsoft Dragon Copilot, a breakthrough AI clinical assistant that is leveraging the latest innovations in ambient and generative AI, is expanding to support more clinicians and geographies, and unlocking new efficiencies with AI apps and agents so organizations can scale impact faster, safely, and with confidence.
Since its launch in spring 2025, Dragon Copilot has aimed to reduce clinicians’ cognitive burden and save time. Initially built for physicians, it’s evolving to empower a broader range of care team members while fostering a growing ecosystem of partner-driven AI solutions.
Accelerating point-of-care clinical intelligence through partner-driven AI solutions
Healthcare leaders today face the dual challenge of fostering innovation while simplifying operations. Dragon Copilot is designed to meet this need with flexibility and scale, helping deliver AI-powered partner applications and agents that integrate seamlessly into end-to-end clinical workflows. Dragon Copilot surfaces these third-party solutions directly within the product experience, expanding reach and engagement.
Opening Dragon Copilot empowers healthcare organizations and developers to build and deploy purpose-built third-party solutions—examples ranging from automated prior authorization and revenue cycle management to clinical decision support. By enabling partner AI solutions for specific tasks and specialties, clinicians can further streamline workflows, automatically capture relevant patient data, reduce administrative burden, and boost productivity.
Microsoft is working closely with an early cohort of partners including Artisight, Atropos Health, Canary Speech, Cohere Health, Elsevier ClinicalKey AI, Ensemble Health, Hellocare, Humata Health, Lightbeam Health Solutions, OpenEvidence, Optum, Pangaea Data, Press Ganey, Regard, Rhyme, Rhythmx AI, and Wolters Kluwer UpToDate. This collaborative approach brings advanced capabilities straight to clinicians, turning innovative ideas into real clinical impact.
“At Baptist Health, we’re piloting Canary Speech through Dragon Copilot to advance diagnostics in a way that’s ambient, scalable, and seamlessly embedded into existing workflows. This technology democratizes screening—every patient interaction becomes an opportunity for early detection, without requiring the clinician to initiate or even think about the test. It’s a powerful example of how AI can elevate care without adding burden.”
—Brett Oliver, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Baptist Health
Empowering partners with safeguarded AI innovation
To help our partners accelerate innovation while maintaining the highest standards of safety and compliance, we’re excited to announce the general availability of healthcare agent service in Microsoft Copilot Studio. It provides a robust, compliant foundation for partners to build and deploy AI solutions that integrate into Dragon Copilot. With built-in knowledge sources and clinical safeguards, the service promotes generative AI outputs that are accurate and reliable—supporting informed decision-making at the point of care. By leveraging these capabilities, partners can confidently innovate, extend the value of Dragon Copilot, and deliver purpose-built solutions that streamline workflows.
For healthcare executives, the benefits are clear: gain real-time access to advanced tools, maximize technology investments, and enable informed clinical decisions through a secure, scalable ecosystem of AI apps and agents. By connecting systems and clinical touchpoints, organizations can boost continuity, efficiency, and documentation quality to support better outcomes.
Empowering nurses with Dragon Copilot
Nurses are the heartbeat of healthcare—steadfast, compassionate, and deeply committed to their patients. Yet every day, they face mounting pressures: staffing shortages, overwhelming documentation demands, fragmented tools, and constant context switching. The promise of AI in nursing isn’t about adding another screen—it’s about lifting burdens. It’s about meeting nurses where they are, easing the path from observation to documentation, and helping teams stay connected without losing precious time.
A multi-year collaboration with frontline nurses across leading healthcare organizations has helped shape the experience for nurses in Dragon Copilot with real-world feedback. Their voices have kept us grounded in what truly matters: fewer clicks, better care team collaboration, and more time for the moments that matter most—direct patient care.
“Considering the complexity of nursing documentation workflows today, we need to be asking if there is a different way to document into the electronic health record. Hospitals ecosystems are complex, and adding Dragon Copilot as an additional tool for nurses to help their daily documentation practices has shown value in both time and efficiency. The tool stands to provide greater value as more users come onboard, and we’ve seen commitment from our partners at Microsoft to continually improve the product, so it works optimally for nurses.”
—Darren Batara, MS, BSN, RN, CPHIMS, Manager of Nursing Innovation and Informatics, Stanford Health Care
Introducing an AI experience tailored to the needs of nurses
- Ambient flowsheet capture: Dragon Copilot integrates directly into Epic Rover, the mobile app nurses already use at the bedside, freeing them from being tethered to a workstation. As they care for patients, they simply speak aloud—and Dragon Copilot listens, capturing and converting their observations into flowsheet entries. These entries are then transferred to the EHR after nurse review and approval. To support thorough charting, nurses can pause during recording to preview what’s been captured already, and access organization-provided documentation ‘cheat sheets’—all without disrupting their workflow.
- Access to trusted clinical resources: Nurses can quickly access medical information from organization-approved sources like the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Medline Plus, Merck manuals, and UpToDate, reducing the need to search or toggle between screens. Nurses get answers without disruption—helping them stay focused and feel supported in every moment of care.
- Automate routine tasks: Dragon Copilot transforms nurse-patient conversations into actionable outputs—automating tasks like drafting nurse notes and summarizing a prior interaction, enabling better care team collaboration, and more complete documentation with greater efficiency. By offloading routine tasks to AI, nurses can experience less overtime and mental fatigue—giving them more time and energy for the moments that matter most with their patients.
- AI customization and user management: For administrators and informatics leads, the Dragon Copilot admin center provides a centralized platform to onboard users, tailor AI outputs to match nursing expectations, and guide informaticists through the journey this solution inevitably sparks—rethinking flowsheet design to better reflect how nurses actually care.
- Analytics and insights: Analytics are designed to support organizations in driving transformation within their nursing workforce with AI.
As AI continues to evolve, nurses will gain even greater support for documentation, decision-making, and collaboration. The future of nursing is one where technology fades into the background, and human connections take center stage—where every nurse is empowered to lead with insight, compassion, and confidence.
Embracing the future of healthcare innovation
As healthcare continues its rapid transformation, the expansion of Dragon Copilot stands as a testament to the power of AI to drive meaningful change across care teams, organizations, and geographies. By embedding intelligent tools directly into clinical workflows, Dragon Copilot is helping clinicians reclaim valuable time, reduce administrative burdens, and focus on what matters most: delivering exceptional patient care. The collaborative innovation between Microsoft and its partners keeps solutions adaptable, secure, and tailored to the evolving needs of healthcare professionals. With ongoing geographic expansion—now available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Austria, France, Germany, and Ireland—and a growing ecosystem of AI apps and agents, Dragon Copilot is poised to empower more clinicians worldwide, fostering a future where technology amplifies human connection and clinical excellence. Now is the time to embrace this new era of healthcare innovation—one where every member of the care team is supported, and every patient journey is elevated.
Ready to take the next steps?
- Visit us at HLTH booth #3860.
- Not attending HLTH 2025? Schedule a demo.
- Learn more about Dragon Copilot partners.
*General availability for nurses in the United States beginning December 2025.
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