Datamation March 25, 2022
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft is introducing a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering for health care organizations to unify and manage protected health information (PHI) in the cloud.
Microsoft released Azure Health Data Services as well as updates to its Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare software, according to Microsoft this month.
Azure Health Data Services is intended to address health data interoperability and provide a holistic view of the patient by unifying clinical, imaging, and medtech data.
Microsoft believes much of the “overwhelming amount” of data the health industry generates is unstructured and inaccessible. The data can be used to support better patient care and outcomes, clinical advances, and research breakthroughs.
Azure Health Data Services was developed to provide data interoperability across the entire...