Microsoft has enhanced its Cloud for Healthcare with new data and AI capabilities. The firm unveiled tools to allow users to access, analyse and visualise data-driven insights across their organisations, and it also provided multi-language support for text analytics. In addition, it introduced three new AI models to Microsoft Azure. The firm announced more users will be able to access its AI Health Bot, which can generate insights from unstructured text. Microsoft also revealed plans to expand its de-identification services for structured, imaging and medtech data.

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