In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, digital transformation is no longer a luxury, it's a need. One of the most important components of this transformation is the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, which plays a pivotal role in health operations and care delivery. Organizations are responsible for large capital expenditures, frequent expensive hardware refresh cycles, outdated security protocols, and most importantly, large capital expenditures, expensive hardware, including managing the data web of siloed systems. Renewal cycles, we are actively investigating alternatives to traditional on-premises infrastructure to overcome the most important challenges. By leveraging connected EHR systems in the cloud, providers can also reach their full potential and provide more data-driven AI innovation.
Azure for mission-critical workloads
Migrating your EHR systems to Microsoft Azure provides healthcare organizations with a robust platform for mission-critical workloads, including optimized performance, fast data access, embedded disaster recovery, AI-powered threat detection and automated Ensures enhanced security features such as compliance monitoring. Plus, Azure offers new possibilities to maximize cloud investment and leverage data in Springboard AI innovation.
Data is at the heart of healthcare. Hospitals produce more than 50 petabytes of data on more than 10 siloed systems each year. As the healthcare industry faces dual challenges and labor shortages in managing huge amounts of unstructured data, up to 97% of healthcare data is not used, and operational excellence and It highlights a major missed opportunity for better patient insights. One of the biggest benefits Azure Healthcare customers can integrate AI using multimodal healthcare data for analytics and Microsoft Fabric healthcare data solutions, data from a variety of sources and modalities to be consumed, stored and analyzed. While Fabric integrates data, Microsoft Purview offers data governance services that help you classify data across data estates, such as identifying delicate data. Integrating Microsoft Purview and Fabric's healthcare data solutions not only enhance security, but also ensure compliance and enable healthcare organizations to manage their data with confidence. We are keenly aware of the expectations of the industry in which our technology is being used, and this is one of the many reasons why healthcare customers trust Azure for mission-critical workloads.
As we continue to deliver data innovation, our customers use connected data with a wide range of AI capabilities. With Azure AI, healthcare organizations accelerate innovation through predictive analytics, automate clinical tasks, and enable patient interactions with the help of ambient AI solutions such as Dax Copilot (incorporated directly into the EHR system). It can be improved and utilized using the Microsoft Healthcare AI model. Azure AI Foundry and Github is a collection of cutting-edge multimodal-generated AI models that can be useful for imaging and radiology workflows.
Enhanced Mission Critical Support
Mission-critical workloads require comprehensive support. In 2024, Microsoft Unified enhanced support for mission-critical workloads in healthcare through mission-critical delivery. The initiative provides active support to improve health, resilience and performance of the health system, ensuring business continuity and uniquely through regular assessments, guidance and optimization recommendations. Addresses healthcare challenges.
Collaborating Technology Excellence: A Distinguished Strategic Partnership
Our commitment to mission critical is reflected in our collaborations with leading EHR providers such as EPIC®. This long-standing relationship of over 20 years gives you an optimized solution for Azure's EPIC®, providing a robust, dedicated platform backed by a joint reference architecture. Recently, Microsoft announced an expansion in Azure scalability for Healthcare organizations, particularly for running Chronicles* Operational Database (ODB) for Epic®, with capacity of 65 million global references per second (GREFS/s) , and increased the extension to 171% since 2023. New MBV3 VM series.
Collaboration with EPIC® goes far beyond cloud infrastructure. This is some of the products and features of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. EPIC® and Microsoft have expanded their collaboration to integrate advanced AI technologies such as Microsoft Azure Openai services and Dax Copilot into EPIC® EHR systems. This integration will help provide AI-powered clinical insights, streamline management processes and increase clinician productivity through features such as note summaries and automated coding suggestions.
Deliver value beyond infrastructure: Microsoft Cloud for healthcare promises
A balanced partnership with Microsoft's EPIC® is one of the reasons why Azure is the cloud of choice for many healthcare customers.
Infrastructure is often not the only decision to move mission-critical workloads to the cloud. Customers like Mercy have chosen Azure to not only modernize their infrastructure, but also extract value from a considerable amount of data archives. Mercy's digital transformation in Azure has made business outcomes positive, connecting previously siloed data and using several Microsoft services, such as Azure Data Lake. For example, by empowering care teams with smart dashboards and insights into factors that determine patients' discharge, compassion has been able to significantly reduce their length of stay. Mercy employs Azure AI Document Intelligence to scan and recognize patient insurance card information and automatically update it with EHR records.
We recognize our customers' desire to fully digitally transform into the cloud beyond every layer of our stack, and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare can provide that promise. It encapsulates a wide spectrum of innovative data and AI innovations from dedicated Microsoft for the healthcare industry, enabling customers to achieve their cloud-first goals faster and easier. Recently, Microsoft has announced several innovations as part of its portfolio, including Azure AI Foundry's new healthcare AI model, Microsoft Fabric's healthcare data solutions capabilities, Copilot Studio's healthcare agent services, AI-powered nursing workflow solutions, and more. has been announced.
Azure is increasingly being adopted in mission-critical workloads as customers recognize the value of consolidating IT investments around a single vendor. Mission-Critical Azure extends customer returns on cloud investments by seamlessly connecting and delivering value across all layers of the stack. Customers like St. Luke's University Health System enjoy the benefits of EPIC® over Azure migration by leveraging several synergies from Microsoft Portfolio. Security is paramount when dealing with patient records, and customers like Jefferson Health migrate their EPIC® environment to Azure with high confidence with Microsoft Defender for endpoint detection and response.
Next Steps
As we continue to transform mission-critical workloads in the cloud, partners and customers create connected experiences with every care, strengthen healthcare workers, unlock value from data, and provide uncompromising privacy Make it easier. and security. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare supports healthcare organizations at every stage of their journey to shape a healthier future.
*Epic® and Chronicles are trademarks of Epic Systems Corporation.
1 World Economic Forum, 4 Ways Data Improve Health Care, December 2019.
