Tech giants accelerate push into healthcare with AI

Tech companies are accelerating their push into healthcare, unveiling new AI tools aimed at everything from documenting patient visits to supporting medical care in space.

Here’s a look at recent moves by tech giants expanding their footprint in healthcare AI:

• Google and NASA are collaborating on a new AI-powered tool aimed at enabling autonomous medical care for astronauts during extended space missions, including future journeys to the Moon and Mars.
• OpenAI on Aug. 7 released GPT-5, its latest AI model, which the company said offers major improvements in answering health-related questions. The model outperformed previous versions on HealthBench, a benchmark that uses real-world scenarios and physician-defined criteria. OpenAI said GPT-5 is designed to act as a thought partner, helping users understand their health, ask informed questions and prepare for conversations with medical providers. The tool can also tailor responses based on a user’s context, knowledge level and location, according to the company.
• Microsoft chair and CEO Satya Nadella stated that the company had a “breakout” fiscal 2025 for the use of its Dragon Copilot (aka DAX), which ambiently listens to patient visits and drafts clinical notes for the EHR. According to the company, healthcare customers employed the tool to document over 13 million patient encounters.
• Google Cloud worked with Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare to develop a tool called Nurse Handoff. The tool integrates with EHRs and uses Google’s MedLM models to generate concise, AI-assisted shift summaries. It is currently being tested in five hospitals within the HCA system.

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