Plan and prepare for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare in 2022 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 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans.
Important
The 2022 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2022 to March 2023. 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 capabilities to manage health data at scale and makes it easier for healthcare organizations to improve the patient experience, coordinate care, and drive operational efficiency.
By bringing together capabilities from Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare expedites a healthcare organization’s ability to roll out solutions. Patients, providers, and care coordinators can perform daily duties in a modern, yet familiar user interface.
International availability of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare can be explored through the Industry Cloud availability report.
Updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare 2022 release wave 2
Investment areas
Improve clinical and operational insights
Healthcare data models and data ingestion provide the foundation for healthcare customers to be successful on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Customers can connect data across provider, payor, and pharma to improve decision making, predict risk, improve patient care, and operationalize efficiencies.
The health provider solution connects data from across systems to improve patient care and operational efficiencies through data interoperability.
Deliver trusted member experiences for payors
We're scaling existing care management solutions to payors. Improvements to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare solutions will provide better support to payor use cases. We're adapting and scaling Patient 360 to build Member 360 services for payors.
Empower health team collaboration
Provider solutions by Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform enable healthcare providers to coordinate safe and effective care. As part of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform support the following healthcare solutions for healthcare providers:
- Care management: Coordinate care plans and care teams within the Care management solution and in Microsoft Teams (powered by Power Apps).
- Home health: Schedule and coordinate home visits (powered by Dynamics 365 Field Service).
We're focused on enhancing the Care management solution and improving the coordination between team members.
Enhance patient engagement
We're improving patient journeys, providing patient insights using AI models, and linking prospective patients to new patients upon conversion. We're also improving patient experiences with their providers and enabling data to flow securely through every point of care.
Data management
To help Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare customers accelerate the use of Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, we provide a starter healthcare data model. We're providing improvements to ensure health data is accessible across provider, payor, and pharma, which will facilitate integration of EHR/EMR systems.
The model aligns with HL7 FHIR standards to support data interoperability with other services. We support near real-time data exchange between Microsoft Dataverse and FHIR endpoints. We provide a new data integration console and improve capabilities of virtual data tables, Sync Admin, and support for 1P/3P connectors.
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:
For application administrators
User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.
Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.