From disrupting a healthcare cyber criminal to creating an AI collective for health system executives, here are five healthcare moves Microsoft has made since April, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review.
- Microsoft disrupted a cyber group known for targeting the healthcare industry. Microsoft took legal and technical action to disrupt criminal botnet ZLoader, a global internet-based gang operating malware as a service designed to steal and extort money from healthcare organizations.
- Microsoft's Azure Health Data Services, a platform-as-a-service offering designed to support protected health information in the cloud, partnered with global analytics software company SAS, to build technology that will make health analytics more accessible to healthcare organizations.
- Microsoft, Nuance and the Health Management Academy launched an AI collective for health system executives who are using AI and machine-learning in clinical and operational settings. The collective, dubbed the AI Collaborative, will commence in September 2022, bringing together senior leaders from the nation's leading health systems to share questions, successes and challenges surrounding AI and machine-learning implementations.
- On May 19, Parul Bhandari, director of partner strategy for worldwide media and communications of Microsoft, was named to the board of health data company NRC Health.
- Microsoft has partnered with AI healthcare company BeeKeeperAI to simplify AI healthcare research and development. Through the partnership, algorithm developers and healthcare data experts will have access to a secure collaboration environment operating in Microsoft Azure, where proprietary AI algorithms can be validated and tested on privacy protected data sets.