While emerging technology trends continue to transform the healthcare industry, the sudden, unexpected impact of Covid-19 has pushed the healthcare space to go digital to address the healthcare challenges.
Understanding the evolving healthcare needs, the Microsoft team launched health cloud solutions for the healthcare industry in September 2020. Later, the solution is consistently enhanced using AI technology in a series of updates to improve data interoperability, deliver a personalized experience to the patients and reduce clinician burnout with more insights and collaboration.
Acquisition of Nuance- an AI voice recognition company in 2021 appears as an attempt to improve cloud strategy and gain access to healthcare providers that are already using Nuance’s AI solutions. Another Microsoft team- teleconferencing platform ranked as the best video conferencing solution for the healthcare industry.
Let’s take a closer look at Microsoft Cloud that’s providing more than 200 solutions for healthcare providers, payors, and patients.
What is Microsoft’s health cloud?
Microsoft health cloud offers a comprehensive set of solutions harnessing the power of the Microsoft cloud by bringing together capabilities of Dynamics 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Power Platform to provide the best care while ensuring end-to-end security and data compliance.
It enables healthcare organizations to address the most pressing challenges with connected patient experience, clinical documentation, health data management, diagnostic intelligence, and health team productivity. It has capabilities to improve operational efficiencies and decision-making using data insights.
All of these benefits have surged the Microsoft cloud solutions usage for the healthcare industry, which is expected to increase from 21% to 57%. Taking a step ahead, the spending on Microsoft healthcare solutions is forecasted to increase to $19.71 billion by 2023.
Take a deeper dive into Microsoft healthcare solutions to know how they are benefitting healthcare organizations and patients galore.
How does Microsoft health cloud bring a bunch of benefits to the patients?
Similar to other industries, patients in the healthcare industry also expect a good experience across their healthcare journey. Microsoft cloud upgraded the solution for enhanced patient engagement and elevated patient experience intuitively. Here are the patient care capabilities built for stellar transparency and higher satisfaction.
Personalized care
Enabling patient access in the health and wellness journey and care decisions in a secure and individualized manner helps in engaging the patients and delivering personalized experiences.
Patient insights
The unified patient view with access to all the health-related data of the patients in one place allows clinicians to get better insights into patients’ health history and recommend effective treatment plans after analyzing this patient trend. Get connected with Microsoft consulting partner to build custom apps that facilitate patient views.
Virtual health
With a virtual visit solution, Microsoft’s healthcare cloud brings clinicians and patients closer just a tap away. The high-quality audio, video, and screen sharing improve the meeting experience thus the virtual care. Microsoft Teams EHR connector allows patients to test their new device’s hardware settings before their virtual visit so that no-shows can be reduced.
How can healthcare organizations benefit from Microsoft’s health cloud?
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare organizations enables improved collaboration, planning, and remote care, and maximizing automation, security, and cloud investment. Take a deep dive to know how Microsoft consulting services help you reap the advantages of Microsoft cloud solutions.
Empower the healthcare team with collaboration tools
Healthcare organizations require clinicians to handle hundreds of patients in a limited time. That’s where improved visibility into tasks assigned and planned activities along with patient data enable clinicians to perform to the notch. All the healthcare team members must stay connected and seamlessly coordinate when it requires making critical treatment-related decisions.
Microsoft care management enables care coordination with the delivery of the right information at the right time to the right people plays a vital role in delivering better care to patients. The care management enables the assigned care team to plan, personalize, and build care plans that help in building tailored patient care programs.
With patient insights and Microsoft Team solution, healthcare manager gets more insights into healthcare team performance and identify the possible ways to optimize their performance.
Healthcare organizations can take the care program beyond hospitals leveraging Azure health data services and Azure IoT solutions for healthcare. It enables monitoring patients’ health status, recommending prescriptions, and monitoring their recovery remotely so that readmission to the hospitals is reduced which satisfy the patients, and makes them happy.
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Optimize clinical and operational decisions with insights
The data troves in the healthcare industry are a valuable asset to healthcare organizations, which is if accessed and leveraged intelligently, the results will be wonderful. Microsoft cloud for healthcare provides solutions to connect the health information stored in disparate systems into a managed service (based on FHIR) to create a well-managed record of the patients. With the help of AI, data analytics, and clinical insights, patient care is improved.
Clinical analytics capability
Text analytics (Using natural language processing), Azure health data services, patient dashboards, and predictive analytics solutions enable connecting patients’ data scattered at different places and identifying clinical trends so that patient care is improved. For instance, automated diagnostic workflows enable radiologists to focus on things that matter the most, allow report sharing in real-time with image sharing, and seamless communication with the radiologist department to improve work practices along with timely care.
The diagnostic intelligence coupled with data interoperability creates new opportunities to deliver quality care.
Operational analytics capability
Healthcare document intelligence, healthcare data model, and Azure health data services allow healthcare organizations to align the management efforts between administrators and clinicians to unlock actionable insights that improve operational efficiency.
How AIMDek can help you revolutionize with Microsoft health cloud?
Microsoft is committed to bringing solutions to the table that serve the industries better. We at AIMDek as a trusted Microsoft consulting partner, are committed to supporting healthcare clients worldwide with the selection, customization, and implementation of the right solution.
Our Certified Microsoft consultant provides Microsoft consulting services for healthcare organizations that help them better engage patients, deliver personalized care, and optimize clinical and operational efforts with a unified view of the patient data and processes.
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The team takes data security, compliance standards, and ease of use as a priority to ensure the team and patients warmly welcome the digital transformation with zero resistance and make sure organizations won’t get entangled in unfortunate legal consequences due to data management.
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