On November 10, 2026, The Ohio State University and Microsoft Corp. announced a five-year strategic partnership to combine the Wexner Medical Center's healthcare expertise with Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence technologies.
Smart Hospital and Cloud Modernization
The partnership focuses on co-developing a smart hospital model and modernizing clinical and research workloads using Microsoft Azure. The smart hospital platform is already in use at the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital and the James Outpatient Care facility.
The organizations aim to move approximately 70% to 80% of storage and compute to Azure, including digital pathology and imaging workloads, alongside backing up the electronic health record on Azure.
Data Foundations and Artificial Intelligence
Ohio State Wexner Medical Center is creating a unified data foundation using Microsoft Fabric and OneLake to connect clinical, operational, and research data.
Clinicians are also utilizing the ambient capabilities of Dragon Copilot to draft clinical notes, while the organizations explore AI-supported tumor-board workflows to coordinate multidisciplinary care.
Workforce Development and Training
Microsoft and Ohio State will collaborate to expand AI learning, Microsoft Learn resources, and certification opportunities for caregivers, researchers, faculty, staff, and students.
Ohio State will serve as a Microsoft Training Services Provider to broaden access to training and certifications, supporting the university's ambition of being a leader in AI fluency.
Key facts and where they come from
- The Ohio State University and Microsoft announced a five-year strategic partnership on November 10, 2026.
The Ohio State University and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced a five-year strategic partnership
- The partnership aims to move 70% to 80% of storage and compute to Microsoft Azure.
move approximately 70% to 80% of Ohio State’s storage and compute to Azure
- Clinicians are using Dragon Copilot to draft clinical notes.
Clinicians are using the ambient capabilities of Dragon Copilot to securely draft clinical notes
