Healthcare Innovation December 10, 2025
Providence, Microsoft researchers describe creating an AI-powered framework designed to both simulate and validate clinical trial outcomes using real-world data
Key Highlights
Artificial intelligence is opening up new avenues for researchers to use real-world EHR data to help with clinical research. Healthcare Innovation recently interviewed Hoifung Poon, general manager of Microsoft Health Futures, and Carlo Bifulco, Ph.D., medical director of Cancer Genomics and Precision Oncology at the Providence Cancer Institute, about their work to overcome the challenges of traditional clinical trials, including low enrollment as well as high costs and failure rates.
Following a three-year study that assessed de-identified data from cancer patients across Providence, researchers from Providence and Microsoft developed TRIALSCOPE — an AI-powered framework designed to both...







