Virtual care companies and payer care managers also have access to Wolters Kluwer, Health content on Azure.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
The first phase of the partnership focuses on leveraging Wolters Kluwer’s healthcare information products – UpToDate, Lexicomp and Emmi, a personalized education tool – into new applications, such as Digital Health Architect.
According to the announcement, the new content-as-a-service (CaaS) solutions platform integrates Azure DevOps, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Cosmos DB.
Healthcare organizations can build their own educational content from a library of more than 600 videos and 8,500 digital educational flyers accessible in Digital Health Architects based cloud.
There’s also EmmiGuide, which provides payers with a massive interactive multimedia and evidence-based delivery of health education to help engage members with personalized health-related content. their.
Greg Samios, president and chief executive officer of Clinical Effectiveness at Wolters Kluwer, said in the announcement that there is a need for all players, providers and payers of digital health to deliver accessibility and better outcomes for patients remains constant despite industry changes and the development of new business models.
“We are proud to be partnering with them to provide consumers with access to patient education tailored to the resources that clinicians use. Working together, we can,” he said. could lessen the difference in that consumer’s health journey and help improve outcomes.”
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
Microsoft also unveiled other patient engagement tools to help facilitate proactive patient care. Last month’s updates included new analytics capabilities with health database templates in Azure Synapse and new features like patient trends.
According to Evan Heigert, brand and creative director overseeing patient engagement, Wolters Kluwer’s patient education products use a combination of audio and visual content to communicate with patients.
Over the past 18 months, the company has focused on creating new programs that are more personalized, he said Healthcare IT News in conversation about diversity, equity, and inclusion in patient materials.
“Our northern star, our guiding light, can provide evidence-based information in a way that brings power and engagement to those patients,” he said.
ON PROFILE
“Combining the power of Microsoft Cloud and AI solutions with consumer content for health,” said Tom McGuiness, corporate vice president of global healthcare and life sciences. Wolters Kluwer’s trusted, expert expertise will enable healthcare organizations to provide better care and service to the communities they serve.” at Microsoft, in the statement.
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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