Insider Intelligence December 21, 2021
Here’s a look back at Microsoft’s top 5 healthcare moves since the start of the year—and why they’ll be significant for its growth in 2022.
1. Microsoft secured major health system and pharma partnerships in February.
- Microsoft expanded its partnership with global pharma giant UCB in February to accelerate drug discovery and development using Microsoft’s computational AI and cloud capabilities.
- Also in February, it scored a partnership with one of the largest health systems in the US, Kaiser Permanente, to improve its cloud capabilities and personalize patient care. To give an idea of the scale of Kaiser’s footprint, its cloud environment supports 12.4 million patients—which is larger than the population of NYC alone.
- These partnerships indicate that Microsoft...