Microsoft has launched Copilot Health, a dedicated space within its Copilot AI assistant that brings together and analyzes users’ health data from wearables, electronic health records, and lab results.
The new feature can combine data like activity levels and sleep patterns from wearable devices, such as an Oura ring or Fitbit, as well as health records from more than 50,000 U.S. hospitals and provider organizations through a platform called HealthEx. The company says Copilot Health then draws on verified sources from credible health organizations across 50 countries and serves expert-written answer cards from Harvard Health. It also connects to real-time U.S. provider directories so users can search for clinicians by specialty, location, language, and insurance coverage.
Microsoft says its Copilot tool is already handling more than 50 million consumer health questions a day across its products and describes Copilot Health as a stepping stone toward what it calls “medical superintelligence.”
“This work paves the way to providing users with trusted access to medical superintelligence—health AI that can ultimately combine the wide-ranging knowledge of a general physician, with the depth of a specialist,” the company said in a blog post.
The launch puts Microsoft directly in competition with OpenAI, which debuted ChatGPT Health in January, and Anthropic, which unveiled Claude for Healthcare the same week. Google announced a partnership with health management platform b.well in October 2025, aimed at using its AI to personalize health data access, but it has not yet unveiled a dedicated health feature set for its Gemini chatbot.
Like OpenAI, Microsoft says it will not use Copilot Health data to train its models. The company has obtained ISO/IEC 42001 certification—an independent standard for AI management systems—and says health conversations are isolated from general Copilot under additional privacy controls. An external panel of more than 230 physicians from 24 countries contributed to safety and clinical review.
The product release comes in the same week as Microsoft published research into how people already use its AI tools for health questions.
In an analysis of more than 500,000 de-identified Copilot conversations from January 2026, the company found that nearly one in five involved personal symptom assessment or condition discussion, and that personal health queries spiked sharply in the evening and overnight hours, when traditional healthcare is least available. One in seven personal health queries concerned someone other than the user—a child, parent, or partner—suggesting the tool functions as a caregiving resource as much as a personal one. A significant share of queries focused on navigating the healthcare system itself: finding providers, understanding insurance coverage.
Copilot Health opens its waitlist on Thursday, with availability limited to English-speaking adults in the United States. The company said expanded language support and additional geographies will follow.
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