Microsoft has officially launched Copilot Health, a new artificial intelligence service that allows users in the United States to upload their medical history and integrate personal wellness data into a single, secure digital environment. Announced on Thursday, the dedicated portal operates as a distinct chat tool within the broader Microsoft Copilot application. The newly introduced platform is designed to transform complex medical records and daily fitness metrics into a coherent story, helping individuals gain a better understanding of their overall well-being. According to the company, the tool is not intended to replace human doctors. Instead, it aims to assist patients in arriving at their medical appointments equipped with better context and more informed questions.
Integrating Provider Records and Daily Fitness Metrics
To build this comprehensive health profile, Copilot Health aggregates multiple sources of personal information. The system connects to health records from more than 50,000 hospitals and healthcare provider organizations across the United States through a platform called HealthEx. By logging into the service, users can access their visit summaries, medication lists, and test results in one unified location. Additionally, the platform integrates direct lab results from Function, further centralizing essential medical documents that are traditionally scattered across different patient portals.
Beyond traditional medical records, the artificial intelligence tool connects with over 50 distinct types of wearable devices to gather daily wellness metrics. Supported devices and platforms include Apple Health, the Apple Watch, Oura rings, and Fitbit trackers. By pulling in data from these sources, Copilot Health can monitor activity levels, track sleep patterns, and record vital signs. The artificial intelligence analyzes the patterns across all of these combined data sources to generate proactive insights. For instance, the system might highlight potential relationships between lifestyle factors, such as how sleep habits interact with other health indicators, thereby helping users spot trends. It also assists individuals in interpreting specific test results and formulating relevant questions to discuss with healthcare professionals prior to clinic visits.
Connecting Patients with Verified Medical Resources
In addition to analyzing personal health data, Copilot Health features tools designed to connect patients directly with medical care. The platform links to real-time provider directories in the United States, allowing users to search for local clinicians based on specific criteria. Patients can filter their search by medical specialty, geographic location, preferred language, and accepted insurance coverage. To ensure the reliability of the medical information provided to users, the system draws on verified sources from credible health organizations across more than 50 countries. Copilot Health also provides citations alongside expert-written answer cards sourced directly from Harvard Health.
According to Microsoft, the company’s consumer products already handle more than 50 million health-related queries every day. Microsoft describes the launch of Copilot Health as a stepping stone toward a concept it refers to as “medical superintelligence.” The company stated that this initiative paves the way for providing users with trusted artificial intelligence that can ultimately combine the wide-ranging, generalized knowledge of a primary care physician with the deep, highly specific expertise of a medical specialist.
Independent Certification and Privacy Safeguards
Given the sensitive nature of medical data, Microsoft emphasized that the new service was built with strict privacy and security safeguards, informed by the company’s responsible AI principles. Conversations and personal data within Copilot Health are entirely siloed and separated from general interactions on the main Copilot app. The platform utilizes additional privacy controls, including strict access management and encryption both at rest and in transit. Users retain full control over their medical information; they can delete their data or revoke the application’s access to health integrations and wearable devices at any time. Furthermore, Microsoft explicitly noted that health data shared with the Copilot Health system will not be used to train the company’s artificial intelligence models.
The development of Copilot Health involved extensive medical oversight. Microsoft built the tool in collaboration with its own internal clinical team and relied on the expertise, feedback, and clinical review of an external panel consisting of more than 230 physicians from 24 different countries. Additionally, the service has achieved ISO/IEC 42001 certification, an international benchmark recognized as the world’s first standard for artificial intelligence management systems. This certification means that an independent third party has formally verified how Microsoft builds, governs, and continuously improves the artificial intelligence technology powering Copilot Health.
