In this Microsoft Ignite 2025 session, Andrew Soltan and Naveen Valluri showcase how Azure-powered agentic AI transforms healthcare processes. The session highlights real-world projects, system integrations, and future AI opportunities in medicine.

From Code to Care: Empowering Healthcare with Agentic AI

Speakers: Andrew Soltan, Naveen Valluri
Event: Microsoft Ignite 2025 – BRK373 (Foundational/100)

Session Overview

This session explores how Microsoft Azure's AI capabilities—including both low-code and pro-code tools—enable the rapid creation of specialized AI agents to address real-world healthcare challenges. By harnessing unified healthcare data and integrated security, development teams are streamlining workflows and surfacing actionable insights for clinicians.

Key Topics Covered

Oxford Collaboration and Cancer Care

• Deep dive into Oxford's regional cancer services and large-scale hospital operations
• 2023 challenge: leveraging agentic AI to improve cancer treatment planning efficiency
• Real use cases: multidisciplinary team (MDT) workflow automation using AI agents
• Ongoing and future opportunities for AI in oncology and broader healthcare

Architecture and Solutions

• Unified data and Azure AI underpin scalable, secure deployments
• Presentation of agentic AI architectural patterns for healthcare applications
• Addressing challenges in integrating AI across multiple clinical applications and legacy systems (Medicare mentioned)

Ethical Considerations

• Building trust in AI-powered healthcare decisions
• Ensuring responsible, explainable, and ethical use of AI technology

Scalability and Reusability

• Discussion on how to design agentic AI solutions that are scalable beyond oncology and adaptable to other services
• Focus on architectural best practices for modularity and reusability

Resources & Further Learning

• Agentic Solutions Overview
• Azure Health & Life Sciences AI Models
• Unlocking Next-Generation AI Capabilities in Healthcare (Microsoft Blog)
• Developing Next-Generation Cancer Care with Multi-Agent Orchestration
• Ignite Session Labs

Session Chapters

• 0:00 – Introduction and presentation of the Oxford collaboration
• 13:09 – Overview of Oxford’s cancer services and hospital scale
• 13:33 – The 2023 challenge: using AI to improve cancer treatment planning
• 15:07 – MDT (multidisciplinary team) challenges and AI opportunities
• 25:00 – AI’s future in oncology
• 26:01 – Integrating agents across applications
• 37:27 – Ethical considerations and building AI trust
• 38:48 – Scalability and cross-domain healthcare AI architecture
• 43:26 – Financial accessibility and Medicare integration

Presented by Andrew Soltan and Naveen Valluri at Microsoft Ignite 2025.

To learn more about creating healthcare solutions with agentic AI, see the linked resources above.