Microsoft this week announced new capabilities to help address some of the common barriers to increased patient engagement and effective collaboration within the medical team, while helping to support care organizations. health easily leverages their enterprise data warehouse to power operational and clinical analysis.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
The new Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare tools have been designed to ease provider burdens and facilitate proactive patient care, according to an October 12 Microsoft Health blog post by Tom. McGuiness, vice president of Microsoft’s Worldwide Health company.
Key for providers is relevant patient snapshots and care management plans that help support faster and better patient care as it unfolds in everyday realities.
For clinicians, new tools allow them to securely access clinical data contained in their electronic health record systems via Teladoc Health Solo – without leaving the Microsoft environment Teams.
Healthcare organizations can also kick-start their analytics capabilities by creating use cases from their database editor using new blueprints – i.e. basic templates health database in Azure Synapse.
Additional features include:
- Missed appointment prediction
- Care plan management
- Patient Trends, (an extension of the Unified Patient View that analyzes patient activities)
- Data integration toolkit with unified visibility for vendor IT admins and tools to enhance health data exchange within the organization
- Data Healthcare APIs that support bidirectional integration of FHIR . data
In her blog post, McGuiness says new patient journey templates that automate workflows, surface tasks, and notifications will be released later this year to help organizations perfect their tasks. services and inform management of care to help improve the patient experience.
“This capability will save valuable time and create even more efficiency for care managers and administrative users who interact with patients,” he writes.
On the data front, a new data model with an updated set of commonly used HL7 FHIR R4 entities will be released to drive faster innovation and increase data interoperability.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
As healthcare providers navigate lean and low morale staff in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are pressured to be more productive while maintaining standards of care.
Now, the stressed and shrinking healthcare workforce of a growing population needs tools that help ease their tasks and speed up workflows without compromising accuracy.
Data tools are also on the vendor’s list of IT needs for FHIR adoption.
The National Coordinator’s National Coordinator’s National Coordinator’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Final Rule prevents information interception and promotes competition and innovation in healthcare IT.
“By aligning FHIR-based claims to payers and healthcare providers through the final rule on CMS Interoperability and Patient and Developer Access Medical IT, health information providers and networks through the final rule of the 21st Century Cures Act ONC, we are promoting an interoperable health IT infrastructure across systems and ensure providers and patients have access to medical data when and where they need it,” CMS administrator Seema Verma wrote last year in an interactive progress update in health care field.
ON PROFILE
“Our deep commitment to supporting healthcare organizations remains unwavering. Collaboration in this evolving healthcare environment requires rapid response, predictability, and continuity. innovate to help realize value faster and strengthen the resilience of organizations of the future,” wrote Microsoft’s McGuiness when announcing the new tools.
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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