Microsoft Cloud Offers the First Enhanced Cloud Healthcare

Microsoft’s healthcare cloud platform received new health data services, including the ability to share numerous data types in the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources format. Microsoft Cloud is the company’s first vertical cloud solution, with healthcare-specific elements include a package of capabilities based on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources data standard (FHIR).

• Electronic healthcare: Azure Healthcare APIs allow clients to consume and manage data in the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare using the FHIR format, which is one of the national standards for exchanging healthcare information electronically. By utilizing the platform’s latest machine learning, analytics, and artificial intelligence features, providers may bring disparate sets of protected health information together.
• Interoperability services: Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare renamed its interoperability data services to the Azure Healthcare APIs, to highlight the company’s expansion of data exchange tools and capabilities. The new services also expand beyond clinical data, giving providers the opportunity to blend insights from additional datasets such as social determinants of health and observational studies.
• Customization: Using Azure Healthcare APIs, providers can search and customize queries such as compiling prescribed medications and CT scan documents or radiology reports from specific patient groups over expanded time frames. The platform ingests data from various sources and creates a longitudinal patient record.
• One banner: Microsoft launched its Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare last October to provide healthcare organizations with digital tools for improving interoperability and data analysis. It brings Microsoft products such as its productivity suite Microsoft 365, its cloud computing environment Azure and its ERP offering Dynamics 365 under one umbrella.
• Improvements: Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare provides capabilities to manage health data at scale and make it easier for healthcare organizations to improve the patient experience, coordinate care, and drive operational efficiency, while helping support security, compliance, and interoperability of health data.