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Microsoft is differentiating itself from its competitors by focusing on their Bot Framework, " which enables organizations to build intelligent agents, known as Bots." In terms of the healthcare space, Microsoft envisions nurses and doctors using " remote monitoring solutions not only to analyze a patient’s vitals such as blood pressure, weight, and heart-rate but also to interpret a patient’s mood based on speech and tone analysis during a scheduled phone conversation." Despite the fact that Microsoft entered the market later than IBM, they are banking on their understanding of the developer market. The initiative is focused on " building software to help doctors more quickly and accurately interpret medical images, but over time, they also want to create applications for genomics, population health, and other areas of medicine." The partnership will create an open platform that will " house hundreds of applications to help interpret medical data." GE and Partners are beginning their efforts with radiology because in that field " dealing with digital pictures from MRI and CT machines, more easily lends itself to computer analysis." This will result in improvements to treatment plans, and diagnosis for patients who suffer from strokes, " cancer, and many other conditions." As a whole, digital health is responsible for over " $1.5 billio n in annual revenue." GE executives anticipate this figure to "increase at double-digit rates by 2020. partnered with Partners HealthCare, " Massachusetts ’ biggest nonprofit hospital network," to use artificial intelligence to improve healthcare.
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