Microsoft recently announced that its health management service Copilot Health has been officially opened to eligible users in the United States, and will no longer use the previous waiting list method to allocate numbers in stages. Copilot Health is a standalone health experience embedded within Copilot, designed to provide users with personalized health insights. This feature is currently only available to Microsoft 365 subscribers in the United States who use the English interface and must be over 18 years old.
Interested users can visit the Copilot Health official page to learn about the service overview, and directly click on the "Try Now" and "Find a Doctor" portals to start the experience.
In terms of data integration, Copilot Health can aggregate users’ health information scattered across different channels, including wearable device data, electronic health records, and laboratory test results. Microsoft said the service currently supports data access from more than 50 wearable devices and services, including mainstream platforms such as Apple Health, Fitbit and Oura. Through the HealthEx access layer, users can also link health records from more than 50,000 hospitals and medical service institutions across the United States to Copilot Health. In addition, it also supports docking with laboratory test results provided by Function.
At the functional level, Copilot Health can help users identify trends in health data, assist in understanding various test reports, and assist in sorting out questions that need to be asked to doctors before medical treatment. Users can also use the service to filter and search for medical service providers by areas of expertise, geography, language, and acceptable insurance coverage to more specifically match doctors and institutions.
Unlike generic large-model assistants, Copilot Health's responses are generated based on information sources from trusted health organizations in 50 countries. Microsoft also introduced interpretation cards written by Harvard Health experts in its answers and provided users with links to further review original materials and authoritative content sources.
Given the highly sensitive nature of health data, Microsoft emphasizes that health data and related conversations in Copilot Health will be stored and processed strictly in isolation from other chat content in the general version of Copilot. This health information will not be used for advertising or to train artificial intelligence models to reduce privacy risks and meet regulatory and compliance requirements.
Currently, Copilot Health is only available in the United States, and Microsoft has not yet announced if and when it will expand this feature to more countries or add support for other languages.