The collaboration will modernize clinical and research applications and workloads through the cloud, build a more unified data foundation and use AI to support care teams, Microsoft said Tuesday. The partners plan to keep identifying opportunities over the next five years as healthcare, technology and patient needs evolve.

Their smart hospital model is intended to connect facility, operational and clinical-support systems, helping care environments become more adaptive, efficient and responsive. The organizations also plan to apply AI to support clinicians, care teams and researchers, reduce administrative work and improve collaboration.

They are exploring AI-supported tumor-board workflows that could bring pathology, imaging, genomics and clinical history into a more coordinated view.