Microsoft for Healthcare
MISSION: As the healthcare industry helps the most vulnerable, Microsoft is focusing on technological advancements and new innovations support the industry's transformation that can help the challenges faced by patients today.
"Microsoft has a mission to enable every person and organization across the world to achieve more...our approach is to work closely with clients and partners to better understand the issues, learn what needs to be done, and create scalable technology solutions and platforms that benefit individuals, healthcare providers, and society at large” (Yates-Roberts, 2020).
References
Yates-Roberts, E. (2020, February 18). How is Microsoft paving the way for next-generation healthcare? Retrieved May 22, 2020, from https://www.technologyrecord.com/Article/how-is-microsoft-paving-the-way-for-next-generation-healthcare-101459
Empower care teams with Microsoft 365:
Video conferencing provides a way for clinicians to provide high-quality, personalized, and affordable consultations. Using the complete meetings platform in Microsoft Teams, combined with the new Bookings app in Teams, providers will be able to schedule, manage, and conduct virtual visits with patients, such as a surgery follow-up. Microsoft Teams also enables healthcare professionals to communicate and collaborate in a secure hub while following their security and compliance requirements with the HIPAA/HITECH (Moore, Rhew, & Lee, 2020).
Protect health information with Azure Sphere: Microsoft’s integrated security solution for Internet of Things (IoT) devices and equipment – is now widely available for the development and deployment of secure, connected devices. Azure Sphere helps securely personalize patient experiences with connected devices and solutions and with the new IoT Signals Report focused on the healthcare industry, it will to make it easier for healthcare leaders to develop their own IoT strategies (Moore, Rhew, & Lee, 2020).
Enable personalized care with Microsoft Healthcare Bot: Microsoft Healthcare Bot, is the HITRUST-certified platform for creating artificial intelligence (AI) powered virtual health assistants and chatbots with new built-in templates for healthcare-specific uses, while expanding its integrated medical content options. Infermedica, a cutting-edge triage engine, based on AI, enables symptom checking in 17 languages (Moore, Rhew, & Lee, 2020).
Azure API for FHIR: In 2019, Microsoft became the first cloud provider with a fully managed, enterprise-grade service for health data in the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) format.This tool helps systems interoperate and share data in the cloud (Moore, Rhew, & Lee, 2020).
References
Moore, G., Rhew, D., & Lee, P. (2020, March 6). Microsoft for Healthcare: Empowering our customers and partners to provide better experiences, insights and care. Retrieved May 22, 2020, from https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/03/06/microsoft-for-healthcare-empowering-our-customers-and-partners-to-provide-better-experiences-insights-and-care/
