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Overview of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare reference architectures

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In healthcare, data is critical to creating patient insights, accelerating response efforts, and improving quality assurance and operational efficiencies. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is a composition of services and capabilities tailored to meet the unique requirements of healthcare customers in the cloud. The reference architecture provides an input into how healthcare organizations can adopt Microsoft services and solutions. This guide helps project managers, enterprise architects, and IT managers collaborate and communicate effectively about implementing Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.

There are multiple stages of organizational process and success in adoption and implementation. This journey ranges from organizations starting their journey to the cloud to fast-growing business results driven by combining Microsoft and partner solutions across many business processes. The journey of health organizations implementing Microsoft solutions includes the following common patterns, built on top of each other:

  1. Enhance on-premises architecture with cloud services
  2. Improve clinical and operational analytics in the data cloud
  3. Enhance patient and member engagement
  4. Empower health team collaboration to coordinate care
  5. End-to-end workloads with FHIR-based protected health information (PHI) store

The characteristics associated with healthcare data and the usage guidelines are summarized in Characteristics of healthcare data.

Note

Clinical documentation capabilities from Nuance are currently not integrated in Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare solutions.