{"id":707,"date":"2018-07-03T15:07:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T19:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/industry\/blog\/industry\/2018\/07\/03\/how-to-empower-health-services-in-a-digital-society\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:24:10","slug":"how-to-empower-health-services-in-a-digital-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/industry\/blog\/health\/2018\/07\/03\/how-to-empower-health-services-in-a-digital-society\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Empower Health Services in a Digital Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
In an era of infinite compute power and abundance of data, what we really need are \u201cEmpowering health\u201d policies\u201d to be successful with the transformation of health systems \u201cEmpowering Health\u201d is the vision for how we do Healthcare at Microsoft. So, the question I often get is \u2018how does Microsoft go about implementing it\u201d?<\/p>\n
Microsoft\u2019s intelligent cloud platform and services lay the trusted foundation for solutions that benefit patients, that empower health professionals and researchers.\u00a0 And how the cloud empowers health takes many and fascinating forms.\u00a0 It\u2019s how a researcher creates a prototype watch<\/a><\/u> that enables a graphic designer diagnosed at 29 with Parkinson\u2019s disease, to draw a straight line \u2014 and write her name\u00a0\u2014 for the first time in years.\u00a0 It is how applied AI allows oncologists to plan treatment with better accuracy. It\u2019s how to enable one million people to receive their ideal personalized treatment<\/a><\/u> with an individual pharmacogenomics profile. It\u2019s how cognitive capabilities on top of electronic medical records allow to detect, long before it happens, the likelihood of high blood pressure, allowing preventative care and potentially saving $50 billion. These and plenty more stories of empowered patients, researchers and clinicians<\/a><\/u> signal a more profound transformation that is bound to happen.<\/p>\n As intelligent cloud platforms and intelligent edge applications get adopted across industries and business processes, health digital transformation needs to go hand in hand with empowering health services\u2019 policies, empowering cultures and mindsets. That is where we need to pause, ask questions and connect. Decisions taken now \u2013 for example on GDPR and health will govern life-changing moments for European citizens and patients for years and even decades to come.<\/p>\n Ultimately, to empower health means to transform health systems, to change organizational models and to imagine an better future.\u00a0 Microsoft has been on that journey – \u00a0It takes deep empathy and a new culture of innovation to empower every patient and every organization to achieve healthier lives.<\/p>\n For more information on Microsoft\u2019s perspective on digital transformation in healthcare, download our whitepaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In an era of infinite compute power and abundance of data, what we really need are \u201cEmpowering health\u201d policies\u201d to be successful with the transformation of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":1514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"post_tag":[],"content-type":[],"coauthors":[24],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"yoast_head":"\n\n