Healthcare DIVE October 19, 2021
Dive Brief:
- Microsoft has integrated its healthcare-specific cloud offering with Cerner’s electronic health record, the software giant’s latest integration with a major EHR vendor, Chief Medical Officer David Rhew said at the HLTH conference on Tuesday.
- Microsoft launched the service, called Cloud for Healthcare, last year to link its existing products like the Azure cloud platform and telecommunications platform Teams it says will help providers with virtual visits, care management and patient engagement through apps.
- Also Tuesday, the computing company announced new capabilities in patient engagement, additional resources for frontline workers and data capabilities in Cloud for Healthcare it said were in response to customer feedback during COVID-19.
Dive Insight:
Healthcare organizations scrambled to build out their virtual...