From completing its $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance to partnering with some of the largest hospitals and health systems, Microsoft is continuing its push into the healthcare industry.
Here are 10 of the biggest healthcare moves from the company in 2022:
- Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health chose to migrate functionality of its Epic EHR system to Microsoft Azure in a bid to secure, improve and optimize IT service delivery.
- Information technology company Wolters Kluwer partnered with Microsoft to work on digital health innovation through Microsoft's Azure Cloud Platform.
- Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare added new capabilities for healthcare providers, including patient insights, patient trends and a tool that can predict missed appointments.
- New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center collaborated with Microsoft and other tech companies on a telemedicine platform that has delivered more than 200,000 appointments since launching in August 2021.
- NYC Health + Hospitals and Microsoft AI for Health are among the collaborators in a new project to promote heart health equity. The project, AI4HealthyCities Health Equity Network, employs data science techniques to shed light on the main drivers of cardiovascular disease, including social and environmental determinants of health such as housing, education and pollution. The program hopes urban policymakers will use the information to better target resources to boost heart health.
- Pittsburgh-based UPMC partnered with Microsoft to modernize and expand its analytics platform. Microsoft will provide its computing, AI and machine learning tools to the UPMC clinical analytics team. The aim is to help the clinical analytics team mine more than 13 petabytes of structured clinical data and 18 petabytes of imaging data to create new insights that improve patient care.
- Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services has partnered with Microsoft to provide a clinical innovation fellowship. The training aims to develop interdisciplinary leaders who will use technology to improve healthcare outcomes.
- New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System said it will transition its Epic EHR to Microsoft Azure.
- Integrating with Cerner's EHR to collect patient information from virtual visits, Microsoft created new features in Teams to provide a simpler and convenient experience for patients and providers for telehealth workflows.
- Microsoft completed its $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance, an AI speech recognition company, that aims to expand Microsoft's cloud services to the healthcare industry.