Plan and prepare for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare in 2023 release wave 2
Important
This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, go to What's new in Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. For the latest release plans, go to Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Cloud for Industry release plans.
Important
The 2023 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2023 to March 2024. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
Overview
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare provides trusted and integrated capabilities that make it easier for healthcare organizations to create personalized patient experiences, give health teams connected collaboration tools, and adopt data standards important to healthcare. Together with Nuance, users can access the broadest and deepest set of trusted AI solutions to address some of the biggest challenges in healthcare. Organizations can use AI to provide full visibility into data, relieve provider administrative burden, boost clinician productivity, and increase workflow automation to improve the quality of care, reduce clinician burnout, and deliver better care faster at a lower cost.
Our key initiatives enable healthcare customers to unify, refine, and enrich data with industry-specific schemas so they can collaborate, perform advanced analytics, and build next-generation apps to meet their needs.
To increase Dataverse adoption, we'll intensify efforts on our patient and member engagement solutions, such as the patient outreach personalized care solution based on Dynamics 365 for Marketing. Our investments into verticalizing Dataverse focus on reducing adoption friction and highlighting the benefit of generative AI in healthcare.
International availability of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare can be explored through the Industry Cloud availability report.
Updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare 2023 release wave 2
Investment areas
Care management
Care coordination and collaboration are the foundation for quality, patient-centric care. Fragmented communication channels, siloed data, and incomplete patient information make it harder for healthcare teams to make informed recommendations. You can reduce the administrative burden and help avoid burnout by simplifying complex workflow management and automating tasks while onboarding new members quickly and keeping the whole workforce on the same page. The key focus areas include the following:
- Streamlining schedule management and coordination.
- Reducing administrative burden on healthcare teams.
- Simplifying complex workflow management and automating tasks to help avoid burnout.
Data management
Connect health data coming from disparate sources and in different formats such as structured, unstructured, imaging, or device data using the FHIR and DICOM formats to create new opportunities by linking it to solutions for analytics, machine learning, and actionable intelligence.
This investment area includes the following advantages:
- Connect data from across systems to help improve patient care, quality assurance, and operational efficiencies.
- Improve operational efficiency by synchronizing management efforts across clinicians and administrators. This can reveal actionable insights into cross-institutional operations.
- Make real-world data accessible by unifying structured, unstructured, imaging, and device data.
Improve clinical and operational insights
Health and life science customers are increasingly moving their data estates to the cloud to leverage analytics and insights, AI, patient engagement, and machine learning. We're enabling advanced analytics for healthcare customers leveraging clinical and operational data managed in Microsoft’s intelligent data platform. These capabilities combine industry data models, data pipelines, analytical dashboards, data governance templates, and implementation reference playbooks that can be leveraged by healthcare IT teams to improve their time to value for cloud analytics.
These insights offer the following benefits to users:
- Leverage insights to improve patient care by connecting data from multiple sources and using predictive analytics for data modeling and identifying clinical trends.
- Analyze and quickly mobilize clinical and operational data for reporting, assessment, and ongoing quality improvement.
- Make each patient touchpoint more relevant with proactive, data-driven insights to align patients with providers based on eligibility and benefits.
- Healthcare providers can improve patient care by reviewing data across patients' health journeys and combining their health trends with population health and risk factors.
Personalized access and outreach
Providers who leverage new personalized care management solutions can benefit from a comprehensive approach that improves care outcomes and increases patient satisfaction by helping patients become active participants in their health. Engaging patients in care decisions with secure, personalized experiences helps them stay engaged in their health and wellness journey.
This area includes the following key investments:
- Facilitate new consumer acquisition and create personalized patient nurture journeys.
- Deliver tailored preventative and care management patient programs that help improve patient management.
- Reach larger patient populations by developing easier patient access through mobile apps, landing pages, kiosks, secure patient portals, and contact call centers.
To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare below: