Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare in the AI Era
AI is at the forefront of healthcare transformation. According to McKinsey, generative AI represents a meaningful new tool that can help unlock 1 trillion dollars in unrealized improvement potential in health care.
Other reports indicate that an integrated generative AI strategy to transform business operations has the potential of driving a 15% to 40% improvement in bottom-line economic results for a provider. For more information, see Harnessing Generative AI in Healthcare.
By embracing built-in AI in the tools that you’re already using, you can radically accelerate employee productivity, creativity, efficiency, and innovation across your entire organization. As a result, you can:
Empower every employee with new experiences and capabilities in the tools that they use every day.
Create more targeted solutions that empower healthcare business functional roles, such as clinical teams, claims analysts, or research scientists.
Empower the security and IT professionals and developer and data professionals who are behind the scenes but are critical to your success.
Making AI accessible to everyone helps create exciting opportunities that help drive real impact across the healthcare value chain.
Innovate by using AI responsibly
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is a unique approach to empower healthcare customers and partners to innovate with AI responsibly at every layer of the cloud. From cloud infrastructure to data and AI, security surrounds everything that people do. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare helps healthcare organizations innovate responsibly at every layer of the cloud.
Security
At the foundation of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, you're powered by trust. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare helps you protect your organization with AI-powered, end-to-end security. Additionally, it helps you ensure the security of devices, protection of health and clinical data, and reliable performance of your AI assets across your organization.
To protect your organization and digital estate comprehensively, you need to secure everything, such as your devices, data, identities, apps, infrastructure, and APIs. Otherwise, it’s similar to the notion of locking your door but forgetting to close your windows.
Microsoft Security helps you protect your environment from every angle, including security, compliance, identity, device management, and privacy. Microsoft integrates more than 50 categories to form one end-to-end Microsoft Security Cloud composed of six product families:
Defender and Microsoft Sentinel
Threat Protection and Cloud Security solutions
Purview and Priva - Data Security
Compliance and Privacy solutions
Microsoft Entra
Intune - Identity and Access solution
Together, these products form a circle of protection where each one builds on and strengthens the other.
Infrastructure
Microsoft Azure provides a robust AI infrastructure, offering you the latest technology, performance, and reliability.
Azure offers high performance for AI training and inference with a diverse selection of AI accelerators, including the latest from AMD, NVIDIA, and Microsoft's silicon Azure Maia.
You can pursue any AI project with confidence knowing that the infrastructure that you're building meets and scales with you where you need it most. With over 60 data regions and over 300 data centers worldwide, Microsoft provides you with a powerful, large-scale framework.
When you migrate to Azure, you have access to an optimized platform so that you can fully embrace AI while maximizing return of investment (ROI) and giving the necessary performance and resilience. Azure delivers these features with comprehensive code-to-cloud security.
Azure is the cloud that can help deliver successful business outcomes through industry-leading solutions and offerings that are purpose-built for your entire IT estate. These solutions and offerings include Microsoft workloads and non-Microsoft workloads, such as Epic, SAP, VMware, NetApp, and more.
Data and AI
Data is at the center of AI. Therefore, it's important to break down data silos and allow more secure access to company data to help make smarter decisions. You can give your data teams the tools that they need in a unified experience that helps reduce the cost and effort of data integration, governance, and security.
Microsoft Fabric provides a unified data platform that activates AI. For more information, see Healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric.
Digital and app innovation
You can customize, build, and partner to unlock your AI capabilities. Millions of apps are available, including sophisticated AI apps that run across Azure. However, the real breakthrough happens when you combine these intuitive development platforms with a powerful AI app platform. With cloud and data as the foundation, you have the flexibility and choice for how to customize, build, and partner the AI capabilities in your organization as follows:
Manage, deploy, and customize Microsoft Copilot to fit your business needs or requirements.
Harness the same services and platform (Azure AI) to build your own Copilots.
Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform
With Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI, we can find the right partner that can help you accelerate the value from your AI investments. For more information, see Copilot.