Technology companies are rapidly expanding artificial intelligence applications in healthcare, with Microsoft and Amazon recently launching new AI-powered health tools for consumers and medical professionals.

Microsoft introduced Copilot Health earlier this month, a new feature within its Copilot app that allows users to connect their medical records and ask specific health-related questions. The company also unveiled additional AI upgrades and rolled out Copilot Cowork to early-access customers. Around the same time, Amazon announced it would expand access to Health AI, a language model-based tool previously available only to members of its One Medical service.

The healthcare AI sector is also seeing innovation from smaller companies. Mantis Biotech is developing "digital twins" of humans by combining disparate data sources to create synthetic datasets representing human anatomy, physiology and behavior. These digital models aim to address medicine's data availability challenges by providing researchers with comprehensive virtual representations of the human body.

Meanwhile, identity management companies are adapting to the AI boom. Okta's CEO Todd McKinnon has emphasized the company's focus on AI agent identity, as organizations increasingly need to manage security and access for artificial intelligence systems alongside human users.

Despite the rapid deployment of AI health tools, public sentiment toward artificial intelligence remains cautious. A new Quinnipiac poll released Monday found that 80 percent of Americans are "very concerned" or "somewhat concerned" about AI technology, while only 18 percent expressed little to no concern. Two percent of respondents were undecided.

The expansion of AI in healthcare comes amid ongoing questions about the effectiveness and reliability of these new tools, as the medical field works to validate AI applications in clinical settings.