Hoifung Poon, General Manager, Microsoft Health Futures, introduces an agenda in precision health, utilizing generative AI to pretrain high-fidelity patient embeddings from multimodal, longitudinal patient journeys. This approach unlocks population-scale real-world evidence, optimizing clinical care and accelerating biomedical discovery.

Multimodal Generative AI: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/resea...
GigaPath (Nature article): https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
BiomedParse (Nature article): https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
LLaVA-Med Paper: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_...
Microsoft Health Futures: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/resea...
Unimodal pretraining on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16452
Comprehensive genomic profiling Providence blog: https://blog.providence.org/national-...
Azure Health AI model catalog announcement: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/b...

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