Med-Tech Innovation March 3, 2020
Ian Bolland

Following the launch of Microsoft’s $40 million five-year AI for Health project, Ian Bolland caught up with Jeffrey Eyestone, healthcare AI advisor at CognitiveScale, to discuss the ambition and potential effects of the initiative.

How ambitious is the investment from Microsoft?

The dollar amount and range of global organisations served, from academia and non-profits to companies with advanced technologies, make this ambitious. Microsoft is reportedly making data scientists available and providing cash grants, so this isn’t just access to Microsoft software and platforms, which could be seen as a bit more self-serving.

The real ambition comes from the range of healthcare use cases that the AI for Health initiative will target: Quest for Discovery, Global Health...

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