The introduction of wayfinding technology at a children’s hospital in Scotland started with a casual conversation among coworkers.

Olivia Swann, a pediatric infectious disease consultant at regional healthcare provider National Health Service (NHS) Lothian, recalled chatting with her colleagues at the 242-bed Royal Hospital for Children and Young People about how much time they spend giving directions to patients and their families.

“Children’s Hospital in Edinburgh is beautiful. It’s new. But it’s just not simple to find your way around,” Swann told us. In fact, an internal survey of 100 families indicated that 40% of respondents needed help finding their way around the facility.

“It wasn’t great for families when they were arriving at a time where it’s stressful and they’re anxious,” Swann added. “And if doctors and nurses are spending all their time guiding people around, then we can’t do the stuff that we need to do.”

GPS? Never heard of her.—JG

Microsoft is partnering with a new company in an effort to double down on its healthcare ambitions.

Professional software provider Wolters Kluwer Health’s clinical decision support tool, UpToDate, is integrating with Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot AI clinical assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Microsoft Teams, the two companies announced today.

UpToDate is an over 30-year-old subscription-based content library full of peer-reviewed clinical information and recommendations for 13,000+ healthcare topics across 25 specialties, all written exclusively for UpToDate by physicians. It’s used as a reference tool in more than 50,000 institutional sites worldwide.

The collaboration will allow Dragon to cite and link back to UpToDate’s content when guiding its more than 600,000 users, Hadas Bitran, partner general manager of health and life sciences AI services at Microsoft, told Healthcare Brew.

Here’s how clinicians can use UpToDate.—CC

Welcome back to AI 411, a monthly roundup of AI announcements from across the healthcare industry.

In February, tech giant Nvidia released a report on the state of AI in healthcare that found 70% of 600+ respondents are “actively using AI.” Electronic health records (EHR) company Epic also had a couple announcements this month, including Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin becoming the first provider to use its new charting tool and smart hospital company Artisight integrating with Epic MyChart Bedside TV.

Here’s your breakdown of February 2026’s AI updates.

Ambience. The AI scribe company announced Feb. 17 that health system Houston Methodist has deployed its technology across the system’s 35,000-person staff.

Athenahealth. The EHR company shared Feb. 19 the next generation of its AI platform, athenaOne. Among its new capabilities are text and voice systems that allow patients to ask doctors questions and make appointments to manage workflows.

See the full list here.—CM

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