Cohere Health Improves Provider Experience with AI-powered Ambient Prior Authorization at the Point of Care

Ambient listening collaboration with Microsoft Dragon Copilot will give clinicians transparency and guidance for real-time care approvals

BOSTON (October 16, 2025) – Cohere Health^®, the leader in clinical intelligence solutions for health plans, will bring together its prior authorization capabilities with Microsoft Dragon Copilot to automate care requests made by healthcare providers. This extension will help clinicians secure approvals in real time at the point of care, to reduce administrative burden and speed access to necessary care for their patients.

Unlike traditional solutions that process manual requests with minimal data from questionnaires in the EHR, Cohere Health leverages responsible, clinically trained AI to automate up to 90% of prior authorization requests while maintaining 94% provider satisfaction. The new collaboration will allow clinicians using Dragon Copilot during patient visits to instantly submit care requests to and receive real-time feedback from health plans. Cohere Health pulls from both structured and unstructured data–patient notes, documentation, and orders–to provide deeper clinical insights, minimizing manual data entry and reducing errors.

“By integrating our AI agents into clinicians’ existing workflows, Cohere Health provides deeper clinical insight and eliminates calls and faxes that traditionally consume valuable team time,” noted Gus Weber, chief digital and technology officer for Cohere Health. “Harnessing ambient AI for prior authorization will allow clinicians to keep their focus where it belongs: on delivering exceptional, high-quality patient care.”

Dragon Copilot’s ambient listening capabilities will trigger Cohere Health’s AI agents to collect and parse relevant patient documentation in real time, supporting clinically informed, point-of-care decisions based on a patient’s full health history. This streamlined process, with in-the-moment transparency and guidance, will improve payer-provider collaboration and communication, in turn cutting down on costly delays, administrative overhead, and provider friction.

“The time and resources health plans and providers spend going back and forth to share patient data and orders often burdens clinicians and leads to unnecessary costs and delays,” said Peter Durlach, CVP, Chief Strategy Officer, Microsoft Health & Life Sciences. “The combination of Cohere Health’s technology with Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot solution will help transform prior authorization from a burdensome administrative hurdle into an intelligent, collaborative process that improves both patient and provider experiences."

The collaboration marks another milestone in Cohere Health’s mission to use responsible, clinically trained AI to simplify complex processes and improve care quality across the healthcare system.

About Cohere Health‍
Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics. Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually. Its AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members. The company has been recognized on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and in the Gartner^® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and is a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024.