Microsoft announced that its agent orchestrator for cancer care management is now available in the Azure AI Foundry Agent Catalog.
Azure’s AI Foundry platform allows developers to design, manage, customize and support enterprise-ready AI agents and apps.
An agent orchestrator is a system that allows multiple AI agents to work together to complete a task.
The tech giant’s oncology-focused agent orchestrator highlights pre-set agents with multi-agent orchestration and open-source customization options that permit developers and researchers to construct agents.
The agents coordinate multidisciplinary, multimodal healthcare data workflows, including tumor boards and streamline deployment into healthcare enterprise productivity tools like Microsoft Teams and Word.
Microsoft claims the agent orchestrator could lower administrative roadblocks and transform care delivery.
In a statement, Microsoft said that “modular, general reasoners, as well as specialized, multimodal AI agents, work together to address tasks that would take hours, to augment clinician specialists with customized cutting-edge agentic AI effectively.”
The healthcare agent orchestrator can also oversee the analysis and reasoning of diverse healthcare data types, including digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM files) and pathology (whole-slide images), genomics data and clinical notes from electronic health records.
In a statement, Microsoft explained that each agent is provided with advanced AI models from Azure AI Foundry, integrating general-purpose reasoning capabilities with “health-specific modality models to drive actionable insights grounded in multimodal clinical data.”
According to Microsoft, early development partnerships featured the integration of multi-agent workflow into Teams chats. For instance, group chats allowed conversations between multiple human experts and specialized healthcare AI agents linked to specific healthcare data.
The capabilities of healthcare agent orchestrator include:
Orchestrating agentic capabilities that can reason over intricate EHR data and expand protracted duties such as building a chronological patient timeline and determining cancer stage.
Supplying tools that link enterprise healthcare data via Microsoft Fabric and the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) data service.
Permitting developers to create, customize and adjust each agent with their models, tools, instructions and data sources.
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