Microsoft launched Copilot Health to analyze data from smartwatches and medical records

Microsoft has added a special section called Copilot Health to its AI assistant Copilot — a module that analyzes the user's medical data and helps them make sense of it.

What Copilot Health Can Do

The service aggregates several categories of health data into a single interface and allows users to ask questions in natural language: what a particular indicator means, how it has changed over time, and what is recommended when values deviate from the norm.

Microsoft explicitly states: Copilot Health does not make diagnoses and does not replace a doctor. Its role is to help users make sense of their own data and come to a specialist with specific questions, rather than a confused look.

The product's key premise: most people have already accumulated health data — in fitness trackers, clinic apps, and test results. But there is no universal tool that brings them together and explains them in plain language without a medical degree. That is exactly the niche Copilot Health is targeting.

What Data It Processes

At launch, four categories of sources are supported:

• Wearable devices: smartwatches and fitness trackers via standard health APIs
• Electronic medical records in FHIR format — a standard supported by the largest EMR systems in the US
• Laboratory test results via integration with laboratories or manual upload
• Activity, sleep, and nutrition data from tracker apps

Geographically, the service is primarily aimed at the American market, where the FHIR infrastructure is well developed and there is a legislative framework for exchanging medical data between systems.

Privacy: The Key Question

Sharing medical data with Microsoft is a fundamentally different level of trust compared to storing files in OneDrive. The company states full compliance with the HIPAA standard and promises that this data will not be used to train language models. Processing occurs in an isolated environment with additional access controls.

Nevertheless, medical data is the most sensitive category of personal information. In Europe, its processing is governed by special provisions of GDPR (the so-called "special categories" of data); in Russia — by Federal Law No. 152-FZ and requirements for medical information systems. The international rollout of the service will inevitably face these regulatory barriers.

"We want to give people a tool that helps them understand their health and better prepare for a conversation with their doctor," — from

Microsoft's official statement.

Competitors in the Niche

Microsoft is not the only one moving toward "personal medical AI." Apple Health has been collecting a similar set of data for several years and collaborating with clinics. Google is developing its direction through Fitbit and research projects in healthcare. Amazon launched Amazon Clinic. OpenAI names medicine as one of its main vertical priorities.

The principal distinction of Microsoft's approach is the integration into the already existing Copilot, which has an audience of hundreds of millions of users across Windows, Microsoft 365, and mobile apps. There is no need to install a separate medical service: the feature appears where the user already works.

What This Means

Healthcare is becoming one of the most competitive fronts for major AI companies. Copilot Health is Microsoft's bid for the role of intermediary between a person and their medical data in everyday life. For users, this is convenient; for the healthcare system — a new type of patient who arrives at an appointment with an AI interpretation of their test results. How useful this turns out to be depends on the accuracy of those interpretations.