What You Should Know
Today, Microsoft announced its first industry-specific cloud offering, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, which builds upon Microsoft’s core cloud capabilities to meet the most important needs for healthcare organizations.
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare brings together trusted and integrated capabilities for healthcare organizations to improve collaboration, decision-making, and operational efficiencies to enhance patient engagement, connect health teams, and support accelerated health transformation.
Microsoft announced its first industry-specific cloud offering, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, which builds upon Microsoft’s core cloud capabilities to meet the most important needs for healthcare organizations. Announced as part of Microsoft Build 2020, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare brings together trusted and integrated capabilities for healthcare organizations to improve collaboration, decision-making, and operational efficiencies to enhance patient engagement, connect health teams and support accelerated health transformation.
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Features
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare helps healthcare organizations to engage in more proactive ways with their patients, allows caregivers to improve the efficiency of their workflows and streamline interactions with patients with more actionable results. Key features of the offering include:
Consumer-friendly patient experience: healthcare organizations can create individualized care plans for patients, or groups of patients, that allows providers to publicize relevant content and proactive outreach to patients on any device when they need it.
Connected physician and referral management: care teams can easily create referrals, search for providers, and understand physician spend, satisfaction, and enhanced analytics on referral categories.
Enhanced patient engagement portals: patients and providers can easily interact through this self-service portal which enables various healthcare tasks such as online appointment booking, reminders, bill pay, and much more. This also allows providers the ability to engage with patients easily through the device of their choice.
Intelligent patient outreach: enables healthcare organizations to design interactive patient journeys to nurture leads, publicize relevant events, and contact patients with preventative and care management programs that help promote better health outcomes.
Continuous patient monitoring through IoT: generate secure, scalable data ingestion from medical devices to allow care teams to monitor patients in and outside of clinical facilities. With real-time insights, care teams can provide timely escalations of care, reduce readmissions, and provide personalized, predictive care.
New Bookings app in Teams: Now generally available to customers across industries to help schedule, manage and conduct business-to-consumer virtual appointments. Teams supports HIPAA compliance and is HITRUST-certified.
Availability
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is available for a free trial over the next 6 months.
