Healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric
Data fuels and powers AI because it's at the center of AI. Over the past few decades, organizations are collecting and storing massive amounts of data from apps, services, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, and more. Organizations collect data with the intention of building powerful AI models to accelerate decision making and enhance efficiencies. However, with so much data, it’s difficult to get it to the right place at the right time and then combine it with other relevant data to derive deeper insights.
The healthcare industry has a surplus of timely and critical data that can inform better practices, but most of it goes unused in deriving insights. This data can empower everyone in the healthcare journey to collaborate, communicate, and innovate together to provide better experiences for their workforces and patients or members. Unifying the healthcare ecosystem and breaking down data silos begins with Microsoft Fabric.
To help your teams make smarter decisions, you need to break down data silos and allow more secure access to the company's data. As a result, 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
Microsoft Fabric is a unified data platform that's designed for the era of AI. Consider Microsoft Fabric as similar to Microsoft 365 but for data. Fabric provides seven core workloads and is a single location for integrating your data from disparate systems, cleaning the data, and preparing the data for your apps, business intelligence, or other AI solutions and use cases. Fabric helps you make data meaningful, consumable, and actionable.
Microsoft Fabric offers OneLake, a unique, open approach for eliminating data silos and duplications and ensuring a single copy of all data. OneLake connects to existing data in files from proprietary databases and data warehouses that are hosted on Azure or other cloud providers. It provides a software as a service (SaaS) type of experience for all data professionals, such as data engineers, data scientists, and business analysts. It also offers Microsoft Copilot assistance for each persona to improve their productivity and use the platform's capabilities. It allows AI-driven insights from data, semantic classifications, and quick discovery and use of data in AI applications. Microsoft Fabric uses the mature Microsoft Azure Stack security and Microsoft Azure Purview to discover, understand, govern, safeguard, and improve the risk and compliance posture of data. Microsoft Fabric provides one location for data integration, data engineering, real-time analytics, data science, and business intelligence needs without compromising the privacy and security of your data. With this unified SaaS solution, you have a single source of truth for all your data and analytics to allow for more secure, democratized insights. By using this powerful, open, and scalable solution, you accelerate time-to-value through cost management and spend optimization to make the most of your data investment.
Microsoft Fabric solutions allow healthcare organizations to:
Connect all disparate healthcare data sources, such as electronic health records and images, regardless of where they exist.
Harmonize the diverse data records with healthcare data models and transformation pipelines to create a multimodal warehouse. Healthcare organizations can use industry standards, such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) to remove complexity and cost of mapping, transforming, and synchronizing data between systems.
Accelerate time-to-insight and ease administrative burdens with out-of-the box healthcare specific solutions or develop their own custom advanced analytics.
Improve collaboration and data governance in the organization by providing a real-time view of the data to the appropriate users.
Help organizations support their Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance.
With the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform, you can use the AI capabilities in all operational stores, whether it’s Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft Azure SQL, or Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Microsoft Fabric is the foundation for bringing AI to healthcare through applications such as intelligent assistants called copilots.