Oct. 19, 2022
Microsoft announced new capabilities for its Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, according to a blog post by Tom McGuiness, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Health, Microsoft.
“The COVID-19 pandemic was a catalyst for change that accelerated shifts in consumer preferences and healthcare delivery innovation. Health consumers, with a renewed focus on health and wellness and tighter budgets, have become more calculated about where they spend their money and the experience they expect from their care provider,” McGuiness writes. “Healthcare systems are also struggling to overcome the impacts of clinician burnout and the ‘great resignation,’ which are continuing to drive significant challenges and budget ramifications. It’s incumbent on healthcare organizations to rapidly adapt to meet both the needs of patients and their caregivers. To adapt, providers need to consider an array of new shifts: new care models, improved patient access, flexible scheduling, enhanced clinical workflows, and maintaining the highest quality of care”
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Key improvements were made to the technology’s Patient snapshot and Patient trends functions. “Now, care teams see relevant information faster through the Patient snapshot (generally available) in the Unified patient view. It enables an organization to customize their own end-to-end scenarios leveraging low-code and no-code tools like Microsoft Power Apps to optimize the patient view summary. Now, organizations can create unique snapshots that meet the most relevant use cases and help support faster and better care management,” McGuiness explains. “We’ve also extended the Unified patient view with a Patient trends (preview) feature to share patient indicators based on computed measures and insights about patient activities, for example, the number of days since the last appointment or the number of hospitalizations in the last year. This feature can be customized once installed to help measure relevant activities for each organization.”
