October 19, 2022 Blog
How Technology is Saving Lives & Restoring Health?
Improving patient outcomes through cloud innovation
Healthcare and life sciences are fast-paced and competitive industries. They hold the perfect opportunity to leverage the cloud and work faster and smarter, improving diagnostics and patient outcomes, with the help of a range of technologies – including big data and analytics, AI, telemedicine, connected medical devices, and machine learning-powered diagnosis.
With Azure, you can enhance patient engagement, empower health team collaboration and improve clinical and operational insights.
Healthcare and life sciences are fast-paced and competitive industries. They hold the perfect opportunity to leverage the cloud and work faster and smarter, improving diagnostics and patient outcomes, with the help of a range of technologies – including big data and analytics, AI, telemedicine, connected medical devices, and machine learning-powered diagnosis.
With Azure, you can enhance patient engagement, empower health team collaboration and improve clinical and operational insights.
Healthcare providers can make the most of Azure in three broad ways:
1. Continuous patient monitoring
Extend patient care beyond the hospital walls, reduce readmissions, and manage the disease through in-patient and remote patient monitoring.
2. Operational analytics
Enable operational agility along healthcare systems and supply chains to reduce costs, respond with agility, and optimize operations.
3. Genomics
Discover insights from genomic data using Microsoft Genomics service and Open Source solutions leveraging scalable storage and high-performance compute capabilities on Azure.
Case Study
Medical Teams International, a nonprofit provider of health care and humanitarian aid, partnered with Microsoft to transform medical care for more than 1 million South Sudanese refugees and Ugandan citizens. To streamline the process, they used apps and infrastructure in the cloud. MTI can now access data anywhere and get real-time analysis to help identify life-saving trends.
Problem & Solution
A huge data set is maintained on tally sheets which are nearly impossible to combine. By the time one discovers an outbreak, it’s already a month late.
With Digital Data Capture, it’s a matter of a click. Capturing patient information, and storing data in the cloud providing the ability to access data from anywhere.
Collecting data, generating reports, and making decisions in real-time.
One doctor states, “Two months ago, we had a lot of malaria cases. The system predicted an outbreak. We went to the community and educated them on how to prevent malaria.”
Because they were able to detect the increase in real-time, they were able to avert it before it reaches the outbreak level.
“When you restore people’s health, you restore people’s dreams, their hopes, all that they think they have lost.”
Microsoft philanthropies support Medical Teams International and Cambia Health Solutions with technology that is improving healthcare for some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
With the help of our Azure experts, we at LogicEra provide personalized solutions enabling healthcare providers to securely store, process, transmit, and analyze clinical data.