From Code to Care - Empowering Healthcare with Agentic AI

Explore how agentic AI transforms healthcare delivery through this 46-minute conference talk from Microsoft Ignite 2025. Learn about low-code and pro-code tools for building specialized healthcare AI agents that streamline clinical workflows, surface timely insights, and advance patient care. Discover real-world applications through Oxford's collaboration on cancer treatment planning, where AI addresses multidisciplinary team (MDT) challenges and improves efficiency in oncology services. Examine the technical architecture for integrating AI agents seamlessly across healthcare applications while maintaining unified data access and built-in security. Understand how to scale AI solutions beyond oncology to other medical specialties and explore considerations for ethical AI implementation, trust-building in clinical decision processes, and financial accessibility including Medicare integration. Gain insights into future opportunities for AI in healthcare, from treatment planning optimization to comprehensive care management through multi-agent orchestration systems.

Syllabus

0:00 - Introduction of Dr. Andrew Sultan and Oxford collaboration presentation
00:13:09 - Overview of Oxford’s regional cancer services and hospital scale
00:13:33 - Defining the 2023 challenge: improving cancer treatment planning with AI
00:15:07 - Identifying MDT challenges and the opportunity for AI to improve efficiency
00:25:00 - Future AI opportunities in oncology beyond treatment planning
00:26:01 - Naveen outlines future direction: integrating agents seamlessly across applications
00:37:27 - Addressing ethical discernment and building trust in AI healthcare decision processes
00:38:48 - Question on scalability and reusability of AI healthcare architecture beyond oncology
00:43:26 - Exploration of financial accessibility and Medicare integration for AI healthcare solutions