Microsoft Scenario Library Healthcare Pharma – Use imaging analysis to drive drug discovery

Available with: Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio

Healthcare scenario: Pharma – Use imaging analysis to drive drug discovery

Back to Healthcare Scenarios Download scenario guide

Scenario

Use Copilot for imaging analysis to drive drug discovery

By combining Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio agents, and Copilot in Excel, pharma researchers can automate imaging analysis, enhance collaboration, and integrate multimodal data—driving more efficient, insightful, and innovative drug discovery.

1. Morning data gathering

A pharma researcher starts the day by prompting Copilot Chat to summarize all recent emails, Teams messages, and shared files related to new medical imaging studies.

Microsoft Copilot icon

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat2

Sample prompt: “Gather the latest market trends, competitor activities, and customer sentiment related to our industry. Summarize the most relevant news, blogs, and reports from the past month

Use Researcher to summarize recent market trends, competitor products, and extract breakthroughs relevant to drug efficacy.

Researcher icon

Researcher

Benefit: Stay ahead of the competition by leveraging up-to-date market intelligence, ensuring your products meet current consumer demands and industry standards.

Get started with Researcher

Copilot in Teams to facilitate a collaborative review session with radiologists and data scientists. Copilot summarizes team feedback, highlights annotated images, and organizes key findings for further investigation.

Microsoft Teams icon

Copilot in Teams

Benefit: Enhances cross-functional collaboration, ensures all expert insights are captured, and streamlines the annotation process.

A Copilot Studio agent that connects to the organization’s imaging repository and analyzes large sets of MRI and CT scans, flagging anomalies and extracting quantitative features relevant to drug efficacy.

Copilot Studio icon

AI Agent

Benefit: Enables holistic analysis, uncovers actionable relationships, and supports data-driven decisions for drug development.

At the end of the day, the researcher opens the integrated dataset in Excel and uses Copilot in Excel to generate charts, summarize trends, and draft a report for the drug discovery team and leadership.

Excel icon

Copilot in Excel

Benefit: Transforms complex data into clear, actionable insights, supporting faster decision-making and accelerating the drug discovery pipeline.

KPIs

Opportunity to impact key functional area KPIs

How Microsoft Copilot can help improve product time to market

The time spent on drug research and trials. Reducing time to market can reduce costs and accelerate revenues.
Boost productivity
  • Rapidly find information
  • Diagnose problems faster
  • Check for similar issues and resolutions
  • Quickly send follow-up communications

How Copilot can help to reduce claims processing time

This KPI measures the average time to process a claim and can impact patient satisfaction.
Respond to a claim
  • Create richer, faster responses to claims
  • Have Copilot assist with drafting and summarizing emails
  • Simplify finding information for claims responses

How Copilot can help to reduce wait times

This measures the average time a patient waits before receiving care. It’s calculated by dividing the total wait time by the number of patients.
Reduce waiting
  • Address more queries in less time
  • Personalize solutions
  • Improve staff availability based on automated capacity-based scheduling
  • Diagnose problems faster

How Copilot can help to reduce readmission rates

This measures the percentage of patients who are readmitted to the hospital within a specific time frame after being discharged.
Reduce churn
  • Address more queries in less time
  • Personalize solutions
  • Improve staff availability based on automated capacity-based scheduling
  • Diagnose problems faster

How can Copilot improve patient retention

This KPI measures the percentage of patients who return to the same healthcare facility for future care.
Reduce churn
  • Address more queries in less time
  • Personalize solutions
  • Improve staff availability based on automated capacity-based scheduling
  • Diagnose problems faster

1Access Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat at m365copilot.com, or the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.

2Access Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat at m365copilot.com, the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat mobile app, or the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.

3AI Agents allow Copilot to access your organization-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.

The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.