Summary
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Copilot Health allows you to upload medical and wearable data for AI-assisted interpretation.
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Created with doctors and more than 250 doctors worldwide to provide safer, evidence-based guidance.
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It pushes you toward care, but always see and follow the diagnosis and treatment of a human doctor.
Whenever something doesn’t feel right for your body, it’s always tempting to Google to see what might be wrong. It’s fast, it’s free, and sometimes it can make you feel at peace (and sometimes make you panic even more). LLMs have only accelerated this behavior, with people flocking to AIs to share ailments, upload photos of injuries, and ask about conditions.
As such, some companies are working to give their AI assistants a special health-related mode specifically geared toward giving people the best medical advice possible. Such is the case of Copilot Health, which is not intended to replace doctors, but rather to help encourage people to do the right thing.
Copilot Health can help you understand your health data
However, the heavy lifting is best left to doctors.
Microsoft announced the launch of Copilot Health on its blog. The idea behind Copilot Health allows users to upload their medical data and readings from wearable devices to AI. The assistant can then use this data to help the user understand what the readings mean, and can use the information to better help people when they ask about a specific symptom they are reporting.
Of course, giving an LLM the power to give health advice should never be taken lightly. As such, Microsoft made sure Copilot Health was based on the best training data possible:
Built with doctors. Developed with our internal clinical team and informed by an external panel of more than 250 physicians from more than 24 countries, who provide clinical guidance, safety feedback and real-world perspective.
It seems like the idea behind Copilot Health is that it will take your biometric data and the symptoms described and use it to point you in the right direction. It’s then up to you to take Copilot Health’s findings to a doctor, who will be able to validate the AI’s diagnosis and come up with an appropriate treatment plan. Anyway, no matter how much a company promotes its LLM as a health expert, always remember to respect and follow the advice of a human doctor over an AI.
