Healthcare DIVE August 14, 2023
Mount Sinai Health System is the first provider to implement Azure Large Instances, which scales database capacity to the level needed for health record workloads.
Dive Brief:
- Microsoft introduced a new electronic health records cloud database solution Thursday, which leverages Azure Large Instances infrastructure and is designed to handle high-volume, mission-critical workloads.
- The solution stems from Microsoft’s long-standing partnership with Epic, the largest EHR provider in the U.S. The two companies deepened their alliance in April around integrating cloud-based generative AI into healthcare.
- Mount Sinai Health System is the first provider to implement the new solution, which is now available to all Epic customers, Microsoft said in an email.
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