Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare brings together trusted capabilities to customers and partners that enhance patient engagement, empower health team collaboration, and improve clinical and operational data insights to improve decision-making and operational efficiencies. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare makes it faster and easier to provide more efficient care and helps ensure the end-to-end security, and compliance of health data. A robust partner ecosystem extends the value of the platform with additional solutions to address the most pressing challenges that each industry is facing today. With Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, healthcare organizations can align to their clinical and operational needs, and then deploy quickly to empower their digital transformation and design a healthier future for their patients.

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare harnesses the power of the Microsoft cloud by bringing together capabilities from Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Microsoft 365 to transform the healthcare journey through more secure and connected patient experiences.

Features of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Solutions

• Enhance patient engagement – This shall engage patients with a patient contact center, intelligent outreach, and a patient access portal. Empower your health teams and patients to schedule and launch virtual appointments.

  

• Empower health team collaboration This provides scheduled and provide home visits, coordinates and manages care, and extend care beyond hospital walls with remote patient monitoring. Empower your health teams to collaborate seamlessly in Microsoft Teams.
• Improve clinical and operational insights – This support better health outcomes by making your health data truly accessible. Bring together protected health information (PHI) data from disparate systems into a managed service that’s based on Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) to help create a longitudinal record of the patient. This data is then able to fuel improved patient care, clinical insights, data analytics, machine learning, and AI.

• Data Management – This help in managing the wealth of available healthcare data allows your organization to enhance patient engagement, improve clinical and operational insights, improve communications, and enhance health outcomes. Connect health data from disparate sources and different formats to create new opportunities by linking it to solutions for analytics, machine learning, and actionable intelligence. Help to rapidly de-identify blended patient datasets to enable your organization to use them for secondary uses such as research, health care decision support, or export for machine learning and AI frameworks. The Provider data model, Payor data model, Data Integration Toolkit, Azure Synapse database templates, and Azure Health Data Services support this capability.

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Setup

The client can purchase Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare as part of a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement. Contact your Microsoft account executive to buy Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. At present, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare has moved from user-based to tenant-based licensing. If the client is licensed for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, you’ll need to upgrade to the latest version before transitioning to tenant-based licensing. This upgrade is supported by; go to Update Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare solutions option powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365. Each healthcare solution in Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 which has dependencies on other Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps and solutions that shall require additional licenses.

The Microsoft Azure components, Azure Health Data Services and Azure Health Bot, must be configured and deployed separately. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare includes solutions that are built on capabilities within Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Power Platform. Clients can deploy these solutions in Microsoft Cloud Solution Center. Solution Center provides a central place to deploy industry cloud solutions from Microsoft, including solutions that are part of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Solution Center simplifies the deployment process. It checks for requirements such as licenses, and dependencies, and enables you to easily discover and deploy capabilities and solutions in Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The client must be a tenant admin, Microsoft Dynamics 365 admin, or Microsoft Power Platform admin to deploy Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare solutions. Also, the client should have licenses for the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare solutions and apps that are required.

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare solutions

Here are the solutions that are part of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, along with deployment information for each solution. Keep in mind that:

• Some solutions have pre-deployment setup requirements.
• Some solutions require configuration or have additional capabilities that you can set up after deployment.

  

Compliance in Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare

Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Power Platform services and its underlying infrastructure employ a security framework that encompasses industry best practices and spans multiple standards, including the ISO 27000 family of standards, NIST 800, and others. As part of our comprehensive compliance offering, Microsoft regularly undergoes independent audits performed by qualified third-party accredited assessors.

The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) is an organization governed by representatives from the healthcare industry. HITRUST created and maintains the Common Security Framework (CSF), a certifiable framework to help healthcare organizations and their providers demonstrate their security and compliance in a consistent and streamlined manner. The CSF builds on HIPAA and the HITECH Act and incorporates healthcare-specific security, privacy, and other regulatory requirements from existing frameworks such as the PCI DSS, ISO 27001, EU GDPR, NIST, and MARS-E. HITRUST provides a benchmark—a standardized compliance framework, assessment, and certification process—against which cloud service providers and covered health entities can measure compliance. HITRUST offers 3 degrees of assurance or levels of assessment: self-assessment, CSF-validated, and CSF-certified. Each level builds with increasing rigor on the one that precedes it. An organization with the highest level, CSF-certified, meets all the CSF certification requirements.

Microsoft is one of the first hyperscale cloud service providers to receive certification for the HITRUST CSF. HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) clarifies and limits how the business associate (Microsoft) can handle protected health information (PHI) and sets forth additional terms for each party related to the security and privacy provisions outlined in HIPAA and the HITECH Act. The BAA is automatically included as part of the Online Services Terms and applies to customers who are covered entities or business associates and are storing PHI. The regulatory compliance standards that apply to certain features offered through the Microsoft Healthcare Add-On can be found in the compliance document (PDF).

The Microsoft Healthcare Add-on Service Specific Terms explain your and Microsoft’s rights and obligations with respect to regulatory compliance standards for Customer Data and Non-Microsoft Product data solely in connection with your use of the Microsoft Healthcare Add-on. The qualifying license terms for Microsoft 365/Office 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, Azure, and the Microsoft Health Bot service are found in the Online Service Terms and the Microsoft Privacy Statement and are a prerequisite to your use of the Healthcare Add-on SKU.

We, Vistas Cloud; support the installation, setup, running, and technical support for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare and related Microsoft dependencies.  We are experts in the migration of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform from your current business solution. Vistas Cloud is a global IT specialist on Microsoft Dynamics 365 . We have several years of Microsoft Dynamics ERP experience, transforming businesses across the globe. 

REFERENCE:

https://docs.microsoft.com/

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/