Related to healthcare cloud offering, Microsoft announced its first updates for its remote patient monitoring, care coordination, virtual care capabilities.
In October, last year, the tech giant announced its Cloud service for Healthcare to bring together various existing services such as Azure IoT, Microsoft Teams, and chatbots with the motive of helping the healthcare industry to manage operations.
The first update, which will be available in April, will have various services for care plan management with supporting eight additional languages.
“During the time of the pandemic, when patients were not able to visit their doctors, virtual care helped a lot. This should make the providers focus to improve patient experiences, ensure secure health information exchanges, and enhance care management workflows”, says worldwide health at Microsoft’s corporate vice president, Tom McGuinness in a blog post.
Patents and clinicians can have virtual meetings in Teams by Microsoft. The virtual chat tool, Teams, integrates helps to improve collaboration with already existing workflows while protecting all the sensitive information. During the virtual visits, the clinicians and the caregivers can have a 365-degree view of the patient's care plan using a single system.
The tech giant, Microsoft also offers new applications for home health care plan management and remote patient monitoring feature. Cloud for Healthcare tools of Microsoft also designed especially with support to exchanging data with Azure API for FHIR and tools for HITRUST, HIPAA, CCPA, and GDPR.
The announcement was made by Microsoft while rolling out new three cloud offerings for manufacturing companies, financial services, and nonprofits. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google are giving tough competition for Microsoft in providing virtual facilities in the healthcare market.
McGuinness said that cloud adoption in healthcare was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Healthcare organizations become capable of scaling up digital health technologies using the capabilities provided by various healthcare cloud services. Various tools to improve workflow efficiency, data interoperability, and streamline interactions are also provided by the tech giants including Microsoft, which helps the healthcare organizations to improve their care for patients.
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