Microsoft is launching Copilot Health to merge data from popular wearables with electronic health records and then apply intelligence to deliver personalised health insights.

Copilot Health doesn’t replace a doctor but aims to makes every minute patients have with them count more. The aim is to help them arrive prepared, with the right questions, the right context and the confidence that comes from better understanding their own body.

Copilot Health brings together health records, wearable data and health history into one place, then applies intelligence to turn them into a coherent story.

“We’re making Copilot Health available through a careful, phased rollout,” said a Microsoft statement (microsoft.ai/news/introducing-copilot-health/). “We’re opening a waitlist to join our early community shaping the experience.”

Long waits, clinician shortages and uneven access to medical care lead many people turning to online sources for help. From understanding first‑time knee pain to finding an open urgent care clinic, the consumer products at Microsoft already respond to over 50 million consumer health questions a day.

Microsoft has improved the quality and reliability of the answers by elevating information from credible health organisations across 50 countries, as verified by its clinical team using principles independently established by the National Academy of Medicine (nam.edu). Responses include clear citations with easy links to source material, alongside expert-written answer cards from Harvard Health. Copilot Health connects to real-time US provider directories so users can search for clinicians by specialty, location, languages spoken and insurance coverage.

Copilot Health provides a dedicated space to bring all personal health data together into a comprehensive profile including activity levels, sleep patterns, vital signs and other trends from over 50 wearable devices including Apple Health, Ōura and Fitbit. It combines these with health records from over 50,000 US hospitals and provider organisations through HealthEx, including visit summaries, medication lists and test results.

Copilot Health makes use of AI to make sense of patterns in health data, surfacing more proactive and actionable insights.

Initiatives such as Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator have already demonstrated results in research environments. Forthcoming publications will outline how its systems can be applied across a broader range of clinical cases and conditions. 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. At every step, new AI features drawing on these capabilities will only be released into Copilot Health after rigorous clinical evaluations and with clear labelling.

“We recognise that having access to your personal and sensitive health information is an important responsibility,” says the statement. “Your Copilot Health conversations and data are isolated from general Copilot and kept under additional access, privacy and safety controls.”

Data in Copilot Health are protected with safeguards, including encryption at rest and in transit, strict access controls, and the ability to manage and delete information when the user chooses. They can disconnect their connectors to health data sources such as electronic health records or wearables instantaneously at any time. User information in Copilot Health is not used for model training.

Copilot Health was developed with an internal clinical team and informed by an external panel of over 230 physicians from more than 24 countries, who contribute medical expertise, safety feedback and real-world perspective.

Copilot Health has achieved ISO/IEC 42001 certification, meaning an independent third party has verified how it builds, governs and continuously improves the AI behind the service.

Copilot Health is launching first in English in the USA to adults aged 18 and older. Microsoft says it is developing additional language and voice options and will announce expanded support and new geographies when ready.