As the healthcare industry and the technology that serves it rapidly grows, there is an immense amount of data and information generated. In fact, reports indicate that the growth rate of healthcare data is far beyond those of other industries: approximately 30% of the world’s data is currently generated by the healthcare industry, with a growth rate of nearly 36%— more than the manufacturing, financial services, and entertainment industries.
One of most useful aspects of the swiftly evolving technology landscape in the last two decades has been the innovation of methods to analyze this data and generate new insights as a means more effective care delivery. Famed technology giant Microsoft has been at the top of this game.
Earlier this year, the company announced Microsoft Fabric, “an end-to-end, unified analytics platform” which integrates multiple technologies (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Power BI) to enable organizations to unlock the potential of their data.
Now, Microsoft is going even further to bring this technology into the hands of healthcare organizations. At the HLTH 2023 conference on Tuesday, Microsoft introduced new healthcare-specific data solutions in Fabric to help healthcare organizations unify data across siloed formats and sources to provide them a more robust way to analyze and generate insights from this data. Specifically, the platform will provide healthcare organizations with:
- A means to collate data across various siloes, ranging from electronic health records to claims management systems, devices, and imaging repositories (e.g., PACS)
- A foundation to build new data analytics solutions to visualize the data and generate meaningful insights
- A new de-identification service, which uses machine learning to sanitize clinical data and personal health information while analyzing medical documentation
Furthermore, the company is also releasing new healthcare AI capabilities through Azure AI:
- Azure AI Health Insights will provide prebuilt models that can generate insights