- In an attempt to overtake Amazon’s AWS in the cloud market, Microsoft is updating the archaic ways healthcare records are shared
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is using their cloud platform Azure to move large amounts of patient data to the cloud. This service will offer clinicians, individuals and researchers a more comprehensive view of patient health in one database, instead of having it scattered.
Health care lags behind some other industries in moving data to internet-based storage, and while health records have mostly gone digital, they are often stored in different databases that can’t share information easily. That makes it hard to create systems that use new artificial intelligence and data analysis techniques to track patient well-being and find new targeted therapies. A better-connected health-care system would provide clinicians with more complete profiles of their patients, researchers with more data to study and individuals with more information to take control of their health, according to Microsoft.
The tool will use Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and a national standard for exchanging health records to have health systems communicate with each other. For example: hooking up patient records with pharmacy systems, fitness devices and others more seamlessly.
This is MSFT latest attempt to grow its’ cloud business and compete with Amazon’s AWS (NASDAQ:AMZN) over market leader status.