Health systems are turning to Big Tech for help with healthcare’s digital transformation. But the relationship goes both ways.
“We’re going to look to all of you for what are interesting opportunities and what are the guardrails to put in place,” said Sumbul Desai, MD, vice president of health at Apple, during a keynote at the HIMSS healthcare IT conference March 11 in Las Vegas, covered by Becker’s.
She pointed to successful partnerships thus far with Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare on an Apple device-powered hospital and San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare, which uses Apple Vision Pro headsets for spatial computing in healthcare.
Here are 12 more collaborations between health systems and Big Tech that Becker’s reported on in the past month:
1. Artesia (N.M.) General Hospital said March 24 it integrated the Microsoft Dragon Copilot AI scribe into its TruBridge EHR.
2. Since launching Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot in February 2025, Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy’s documentation accuracy has increased from 30% to 90% across pilot units in Missouri and Arkansas, according to an article from the health system published March 23 by the Catholic Health Association of the United States.
3. Owensboro (Ky.) Health is piloting an AI platform developed by Optum and Microsoft that aims to tackle one of the most persistent sources of clinician frustration: the administrative complexity of documentation, coding and claims, Becker’s reported March 20.
4. Microsoft venture fund M12 joined Pittsburgh-based UPMC Enterprises in a series A funding round March 18 for RAAPID, an AI startup focused on risk adjustment and medical coding.
5. At UC San Diego Health, an early deployment of Amazon Connect Health is reducing call times by 25% and reshaping how the health system approaches patient access, Becker’s reported March 17.
6. Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System and Boston Children’s Hospital have recently been using Google AI for tasks such as streamlining previsit histories and identifying reasons for disease outbreaks, the tech giant said March 17.
7. Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has elevated data into Google Cloud and is developing a “data-as-product” approach designed to support AI, analytics and automation at scale, the health system said March 9.
8. Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health delivered $27.9 million in value in 2025 from an AI assistant developed with Google Cloud, the tech company said in March.
9. Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health reduced documentation time and improved clinician satisfaction after deploying Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot across its system in the fall, the tech giant said March 4.
10. Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health now has more than 10,000 monthly active users in Sutter IQ, the system’s internal enterprise version of Microsoft Copilot.
11. Medline said in late February it began piloting its AI-powered supply chain platform, developed with Microsoft, with 10 health systems in the U.S.
12. Before fully committing to AI, Seattle Children’s spent about 18 months rebuilding the organization’s data foundation, migrating from an on-premises IBM Netezza warehouse to a full Google Cloud platform, Becker’s reported in late February.
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