Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare

2020: Announcement of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare platform

On May 19, 2020 Microsoft announced start of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare — a cloud platform for the organizations in the field of health care.

By analogy with other offers of Microsoft, Cloud for Healthcare is a set of services which Microsoft already has, prepared for a certain scope of application. In this case he turns on Microsoft 365 Dynamics, Power Platform and Azure, including Azure IoT for data collection from devices of monitoring of patients.

Microsoft provided a complex of services for health care

According to the description on the official site, the platform will help to make more individual approach to treatment of patients, will increase efficiency of data exchange between the patient and the organization of health care and between its separate commands, will help to increase efficiency of treatment due to data analysis, will improve data availability and also will help to protect them and to meet regulatory standards.

Using Cloud for Healthcare, for example, it is possible to configure the chat-bot which will ask the patient preliminary questions of his status on the website of the organization. This chat a bot should be configured by the health worker. Then the chat-bot can redirect the user on the employee of registry who can appoint to the patient the virtual consultation which is also carried out based on the platform.

In addition to own tools Microsoft is going to offer within the platform access to the specialized medical services rendered by partners of corporation, such as Epic, Allscripts, GE Healthcare, Adaptive Biotechnologies and Nuance.

In 2020 Microsoft is going to open for clients access to free testing of Cloud for Healthcare. Added to corporations that over time intend to start similar sets of cloud services and for other industries.^[1]

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