Overview

• Microsoft announced a nursing-focused expansion of Dragon Copilot with general availability in the United States starting in December.
• The assistant records nurse–patient interactions and organizes them into flowsheet documentation that nurses review before sending to the EHR.
• Nurses can pause recordings to preview and edit entries as a safety guardrail designed around nursing workflows rather than physician note styles.
• Advocate Health began a pilot in April with 20 nurses on one unit and reports faster, more timely documentation and reduced cognitive load, with expansion to another hospital planned next month.
• Microsoft is opening the platform to third-party apps and AI agents and is working with content partners such as OpenEvidence and Wolters Kluwer’s UpToDate, while positioning the product as the first commercially available ambient documentation tool built for nursing.