The latest AI innovations from Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, with our partners, empower patients, providers, payors, and life sciences organizations:

• Patients can access personalized care.
• Providers can deliver more efficient and effective care through advanced data analytics.
• Payors gain insights to improve operational efficiency and enhance patient outcomes.
• Life sciences organizations accelerate research and drug development processes.

Some specific examples of our investments include healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric, which enables healthcare organizations to unify and centralize their data for scalable analytics and AI workloads. Additionally, we’ve invested in a new certified software designation for Solutions Partners in healthcare, and other industries, as part of the Microsoft Cloud for AI Cloud Partner Program. These designations certify that our partner solutions are optimally built on Microsoft Industry Clouds to deliver their solutions.

Together, we’re seizing the remarkable opportunity that AI presents in healthcare, propelling the industry towards a transformative future.

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We were proud to showcase the remarkable work of our featured partners at HIMSS24. Teladoc Health shared how they are enabling connected care through virtual care solutions from inpatient to home—bridging virtual and in-patient care and at-home condition management. TCS showcased how they’re reducing the time it takes to respond to health authorities for regulatory submissions with AI, while providing an intelligent dashboard for real-time feedback to deepen patient understanding. Other partners we featured at the event throughout the week included Sectra, Hitachi Solutions, Accenture-Avanade, Quisitive, and HITRUST.

Additionally, 10 groundbreaking startups joined us, including BeekeeperAI, Mapped, and Pangaea Data. Partners such as CDW, Nordic, Kyndryl, BDO, and Vervint, demonstrated the significance of data and AI in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) on Microsoft Azure by guiding attendees on secure cloud migration, emphasizing high-quality care delivery that prioritizes patient needs. Each partner is reshaping the healthcare landscape by integrating enhanced solutions with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Copilot for Azure, and Microsoft Fabric. Our collaborations are deeply aligned to our focus of creating connected experiences, empowering the workforce, and unlocking the value of data across the healthcare landscape.

Partners leveraging AI to fuel innovation in healthcare

From revolutionizing patient engagement to streamlining clinical documentation and advancing drug discovery, partners are harnessing generative AI applications to help solve seemingly insurmountable challenges in healthcare.

To boost clinician productivity and provide better patient services, Accenture-Avanade are utilizing generative AI capabilities powered by Microsoft Copilot for patient medical history summarization, patient response drafting, and intelligent search. CitiusTech’s Smart Search leverages Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Cognitive Search to provide patients with round-the-clock query assistance and personalized responses, reducing the dependency on doctors—ultimately driving better patient satisfaction.

Additionally, Cognizant is infusing generative AI into healthcare administration to enhance productivity and efficiency for payers and providers, ensuring timely responses and improved patient care using Azure OpenAI Service and Semantic Kernel within the TriZetto® user interface.

“At Cognizant, we’re working closely with clients to understand and implement generative AI into their organizations, helping them unlock and expand value across the enterprise. Through this collaboration with Microsoft, we have infused generative AI capabilities into our TriZetto® platform, making it easier for healthcare organizations to realize the full potential of this groundbreaking technology.”

—Surya Gummadi, Executive Vice President and President, Cognizant Americas

In imaging and clinical documentation, Sectra’s Azure-optimized software as a service solution, Sectra OneCloud, revolutionizes enterprise imaging with scalability, security, and diagnostic capabilities to enhance care delivery and optimize clinical processes.

Several partners are also leveraging Fabric—an end-to-end, unified analytics platform that brings together data and AI—to modernize data estates and unlock powerful insights. For example, Hitachi Solutions is enhancing predictive care management, reducing operational costs, and strengthening data security and privacy with Lumada Empower Data Platform and Discern Health. Quisitive is uncovering actionable insights and driving greater efficiency with the development of MazikCare Copilot, which utilizes AI for care coordination, denial management, and gap assessments.

To better protect and govern data, HITRUST is establishing a foundation of privacy and security that enables the operationalization of responsible AI and establishes AI assurance and risk management. Commvault is providing powerful defense against threats by leveraging AI-driven automation and generative AI through their copilot, enabling seamless business continuity.

“At Commvault, our collaboration with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is at the forefront of providing robust defenses for the healthcare sector. By integrating AI and automation we’re not just improving the resilience of healthcare organizations, we’re transforming how they anticipate and neutralize threats.”

—Anna Griffin, Chief Marketing Officer, Commvault

Other powerful partnerships with organizations like GE Healthcare, Sophia Genetics, Andor Health, and Volpara are bringing innovations to customers and we’re proud to announce new advances alongside them.

And finally, we’ve recently announced a healthcare collaboration with NVIDIA that will harness the immense power of the cloud and cutting-edge AI to accelerate healthcare innovation. And we’ve partnered with Truveta to advance medical research with a groundbreaking solution that leverages AI to analyze patient data, helping to save lives.

We’re deeply committed to advancing together with our partner community, fueling new use cases and exploring impactful generative AI scenarios to deliver efficient care. Join us on this journey.

Learn more about healthcare solutions from Microsoft

To learn more about Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare and our work with key partners:

• Visit Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
• Read Microsoft at HIMSS24: Shaping a healthier future with data and AI.
• Read Harness the power of data and AI in healthcare with new Microsoft solutions.
• Learn more about the Solutions Partner learning path, which includes Microsoft Learn documentation, a playbook, and an FAQ.

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Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services is unlocking new value for customers and helping partners deepen customer relationships. At Sibos 2023, we were proud to highlight the work of independent software vendors (ISVs), including Finastra, Intellect Global Transaction Banking (iGTB), LSEG, Symphony AI, Temenos, Trade Ledger, Traydstream, VeriPark, and Zafin, as well as global systems integrators (GSIs) like Accenture–Avanade and PwC. Each of these partners has done amazing work to create, implement, and enhance solutions tailored to the requirements and needs of financial services organizations.  

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This year, groundbreaking generative AI projects from our partners are proving the value of investing in new solutions.  

To explore new opportunities for payments, iGTB has showcased how they extract transactional insights from payment flows, opening up new horizons for the industry. In the complex domain of trade finance, Traydstream is addressing complexities head-on through the digitization and automation of trade processing, seamlessly integrating Microsoft technologies with their AI-powered platform. Finastra is modernizing its trade platform through a full microservices architecture using Microsoft Azure, that will give banks increased agility, flexibility, and scalability, enabling them to continue to provide service excellence to customers throughout their modernization journey.

In the realms of financial risk and crime, Symphony AI, ASC Technologies, and Temenos are forging innovative solutions to enhance security. Temenos, specifically, is combatting money laundering while facilitating secure international payments. Symphony AI is using generative AI to power-up investigative processes and teams. And Trade Ledger is using generative AI to create new channels for commercial banks and support working capital management decision making across small and medium-sized businesses. 

Amid the array of innovations showcased at this year’s event, we also presented demonstrations of an integrated copilot experience tailored for asset management. This new user journey spans analytics, workplace services, and data intelligence, offering a comprehensive and dynamic experience.

Our partner ecosystem continues to grow

The partner ecosystem for Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services continues to grow and evolve with continued innovation with Microsoft technologies. As applications of AI capabilities rapidly expand, our financial services partners are finding new ways to build customer trust with responsible AI, meet customer demands, offer transparency, and deliver groundbreaking solutions that drive industry best practices forward.  

“Customers are eager to transform their trade finance and supply chain offerings, and to access the latest innovations, working with partners across the ecosystem. Partnering with Microsoft builds on our joint strategic vision to help accelerate the digital transformation of financial services, and support customers on their journeys.”

—Isabel Fernandez, Executive Vice President for Lending at Finastra.

Through powerful partnerships, organizations can bring innovations to their customers, faster than ever.  

And at iGTB, Chief Executive Officer Manish Maakan says that, together with Microsoft, they are “piloting a roadmap that unlocks the potential [of] artificial intelligence in financial services and seeks to showcase the transformative capabilities of Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in the commercial banking space.”  

According to Craig Ramsey, Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide, “By hosting ACI’s Real-Time Payments Cloud in Microsoft Azure, financial institutions will now have access to an award-winning, end-to-end solution to enable their processing of 24/7 payments.” This provides simplicity of operations and promotes interoperability. 

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Discover the optimal technology solution for your organization through our array of ISV, system integrator (SI), and advisory partners.

Our financial services partner ecosystem remains dedicated to empowering our customers, enabling them to provide exceptional customer experiences, streamline their operations, and explore new avenues for growth. Our commitment includes ongoing investments in flexibility and extensibility within Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services, fostering the expansion of our partner network.

To continue providing the capabilities our partners need, Microsoft announced a set of new solution partner designations under the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program (MAICPP) at Microsoft Inspire 2023. These designations certify that our partner solutions are optimally built on Microsoft Industry Clouds to deliver their solutions.

We eagerly anticipate announcing more ISV partner solutions in the coming months as part of this program. We look forward to welcoming our industry partners.

New possibilities are always emerging

As financial institutions embrace cloud technology, they unlock numerous benefits. This includes harnessing standardized data models for innovative business paradigms, customer-centric experiences, and future growth. They also explore AI integration with confidence in Microsoft Cloud’s secure solutions.

In this AI-driven era, we’re deeply committed to advancing together with our partner community. We’ll build on innovations, work closely with financial services partners to identify use cases, and explore generative AI and large language models (LLMs). Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services partners can create novel solutions and elevate existing ones, leveraging the Microsoft Cloud platform. This collaborative effort is about more than just business; it’s about empowering our end customers to achieve a smarter, more interconnected future in financial services—delivering distinctive and exceptional value.

For more inspiring partner news and engagement opportunities, look for Microsoft and our partners at Money 20/20 and InsureTech Connect (ITC), where you can go deeper into AI innovations built on Azure OpenAI Service and our copilot offerings. 

Learn more

• Visit Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services.
• Review Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services partner assets.

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One thing very clear at HIMSS23 is the healthcare industry is undergoing major disruptions. Technological advancements and digital innovations are playing a growing role for healthcare organizations, accelerated by COVID-19, the rapidly evolving role of virtual care, and more. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, with a growing ecosystem of partners, is helping to change the game. 

“Key topics discussed at HIMSS—including AI and automation, cybersecurity and patient experience—align perfectly with Cognizant’s capabilities and those of our hyperscaler partners like Microsoft. Migrating to Microsoft Healthcare Cloud can help healthcare providers achieve rapid adoption of technologies that could offer increased security and efficiency while improving the patient experience.”—Patricia Hunter-Dennehy, VP Healthcare Head of Provider, Cognizant.

Our partners deliver results for healthcare providers and payors

The Microsoft Partner Network plays an important role in delivering comprehensive solutions to our customers. At HIMSS23, we were pleased to have had 15 of our healthcare partners—independent software vendors (ISVs) and global systems integrators (GSIs) including three start-ups: Recuro Health, Anjuna Security, and Pangaea Data—join us in our booth to get some of the attention they all deserve.

“Being part of the Microsoft HIMSS23 booth elevated Recuro Health, a Pegasus partner, to a prime position at one of healthcare’s most important tradeshows – a position we would not have reached on our own. Microsoft has significant value and prominence as we navigate the road to success in our healthcare endeavors.”—Michael Gorton, Co-Founder and CEO, Recuro Health.

With the help of our partners, we showcased some of the latest ground-breaking experiences for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. These booth experiences demonstrated how Microsoft can empower healthcare organizations to deliver meaningful outcomes. The Microsoft Partner Network is here to help deliver results for healthcare organizations in four ways: 

1. Empower health team collaboration: Our partners are here to help support healthcare organizations with tools and technologies that enable care teams to collaborate and share knowledge in secure, connected environments. This helps to improve communication and coordination among care team members, leading to better patient outcomes and enhanced productivity. Partners such as Wipro and Teladoc are working with us to ensure that care teams are connected, and patients receive the right care at the right time. 

2. Support your healthcare workforce: Nuance was joined by partners, Efferent Health and Sophia Genetics to showcase their solutions that improve clinician experiences by using AI-powered ambient clinical intelligence, and virtual assistants to help support clinical documentation and administrative tasks. Reducing administrative burden can help lower clinician burnout and improve job satisfaction. Our partners shared how technology has a role to play to connect clinicians with the data they need and optimize time with their patients.

3. Deliver exceptional patient and member experiences: Healthcare organizations are looking for more ways to connect with their patients. Our partners Avanade | Accenture, Andor Health, and Cognizant | TriZetto are creating new ways to deliver exception patient and members experiences by providing tools that makes it easier to schedule appointments, manage home visits, and extend care beyond hospital walls.

“We were honored to be part of Microsoft’s HIMSS23 booth and grateful to have been an early partner to build on Microsoft’s advanced AI capabilities like ChatGPT. Leveraging ChatGPT, AI, ACS, and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, has empowered Andor Health to deliver an innovative approach to virtual health that is effective and efficient. Our AI-powered ThinkAndor® creates more effective virtual collaborations—enhancing patient and care team experiences by bringing forward relevant clinical content in context to enhance and accelerate better care. ThinkAndor® changes the nature of care delivery.”—Srini Surendranath, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Andor Health.

4. Improve clinical care and operational insights: Customers are looking for solutions to help them take action with their data, realize saving faster, and achieve better outcomes across their business. Moving clinical, core administrative, and operational workloads to Azure provides the infrastructure, security, and agility customers need to create faster value and better experiences across their organization. Our system integrator partners, CDW/Sirius, Kyndryl, and OST can help your organization with your migration to Azure, and Wolters Kluwer and HCLTech, are delivering solutions to support payor and provider systems with the full power of the Microsoft Cloud. 

“At HIMSS23 we showed how the power of Wolters Kluwer’s real-time clinical searched data from UpToDate® combined with Microsoft’s leading Power Apps, Power BI, and Azure, can equip Healthcare organizations to see clinical data insights to help identify emerging trends and knowledge gaps. With clinical insights, organizations can better target areas for strategic improvements in clinical program management, education initiatives and more, to drive ROI gains.”—Julie Frey, Director Product Strategy, Wolters Kluwer Health.

Another benefit of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is that it helps healthcare organizations adopt a virtual first approach to care delivery. COVID-19 highlighted the need for virtual care and remote monitoring, and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare has helped healthcare organizations adopt new models of care such as value-based and hospital-at-home initiatives, as well as care innovations. Its AI capabilities have the potential to improve disease diagnosis, research, and clinical and operational insights in a way like never before. 

“At HIMSS, Avanade showcased our Care 24/7 play, a set of virtual and digital transformation accelerators built specifically to help healthcare organizations meet today’s industry challenges by leveraging their investments in the Microsoft platform. Care 24/7 extends and personalizes our client’s Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare footprint to deliver better patient and clinician experiences, data driven insights, and provides a scalable and secure platform from which to continue to innovate and evolve in this digital age.”—Robert Hazelton, Global Healthcare and Life Sciences Lead, Accenture | Avanade.

AI set to drive big healthcare improvements 

We saw considerable interest in Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare at HIMSS23. Healthcare professionals and technology providers are seeking innovative solutions to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs, and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is seen as a major driver of this transformation. Microsoft’s growing ecosystem of partners builds and extends the robust capabilities of this industry cloud, and its technologies make it easy to adapt and grow specific to each healthcare organization’s need. 

Some of those improvements will be built on our AI solutions. We’re a market leader in delivering effective AI to customers. Our AI-powered solutions can assist and ease workflow strains by allowing clinicians to be more efficient—reducing burnout and increasing patient satisfaction. Additionally, it can improve healthcare outcomes by leveraging predictive analytics and identifying high-risk patients. 

Furthermore, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is helping to connect consumers to their appropriate healthcare providers, especially those in underserved and rural communities. COVID-19 exposed many of the existing disparities in healthcare, and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is helping to address these disparities by providing access to healthcare services in a simple, convenient, and on-demand way. 

During HIMSS23, Microsoft and HITRUST announced the Microsoft Global Healthcare Compliance Scale Program to streamline information privacy and security compliance for healthcare partners and customers worldwide. The successful pilot of the program relating to HIPAA that key United States-based partners and customers were part of, cleared the path to expand the program, globally. The program will roll out next in Canada for Ontario PHIPA, and GDPR in Europe.

“Any opportunity for requirement-level inheritance is a major benefit to us. The HIPAA Compliance Insights Report clarifies requirements that are already met by Teladoc Health, Microsoft or other partners. This can be especially helpful when doing business across multiple countries.” —Tim Wright, VP Strategic partnerships, Teladoc Health.

Learn more about Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare 

In conclusion, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is driving better results for healthcare providers by combining industry-specific IP offerings on top of Microsoft Cloud products. Its modular capabilities can be adopted based on customer needs and are interconnected to make data accessible across the entire patient journey. It helps healthcare organizations achieve compliance in a cloud environment—adopt a virtual-first approach to care delivery and provide personalized patient experiences. As the healthcare industry continues to undergo rapid transformation, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is poised to play an even greater role in shaping the future of healthcare. 

There’s much more to learn about the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare and our work with key partners.

• Latest Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare capabilities optimize payor, provider productivity.
• Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare: Empowering healthcare to deliver meaningful outcomes.
• Microsoft at HIMSS23: Empower meaningful outcomes across the healthcare journey.

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Helping retailers become resilient represents a tremendous opportunity for our partners. Using Microsoft Cloud for Retail, they can create solutions that extend their capabilities in ways that drive resiliency. We saw that at the NRF show, where our Microsoft Cloud for Retail partners such as Aifi, Accenture|Avanade, EY, and others showcased key solutions to enable intelligent stores and frontline worker-assist solutions.

How Microsoft and our partners create resilient retailers

At the NRF show, we introduced two new capabilities that make Microsoft Cloud for Retail even more powerful:

1. Smart Store Analytics. We provide retailers with e-commerce-level shopper analytics for the physical space. And we are partnering with AiFi, the world’s most broadly deployed computer vision-powered autonomous store operator, with 100 locations deployed worldwide. AiFi’s “smart stores” are retail stores equipped with cameras that track what customers pick up and place in their carts, automatically charging their payment cards when they’re ready to check out. Zabka, a chain of Polish convenience stores, also uses AiFi to give store managers access to data from the AiFi platform and helps them adjust store layouts and inventory.
2. Store Operations Assist​. Retail always has been and always will be a “people business.” Store Operations Assist equips store associates to better serve and engage customers and be more productive. It provides a single pane of glass with access to all the operational day-to-day activities—from curbside fulfillment to customer service scenarios in the physical store. Accenture|Avanade is delivering AI-powered insights with ai.RETAIL, a data insight solution integrated with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams for frontline workers, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 products. EY, meanwhile, has launched a retail solution that builds on the Microsoft Cloud for Retail to deliver an improved customer journey and higher sales.

Partners put our cloud to work

Retailers have powerful allies in our robust partner network. Like our other industry clouds, the partner ecosystem for Microsoft Cloud for Retail continues to grow and evolve quickly. For that, I want to thank all of the partners that helped us have a successful NRF show, including:

• Accenture|Avanade: ai.RETAIL
• Aifi: Aifi Autonomous Shopping
• Blue Yonder: Blue Yonder Order Management
• Cooler Screens: Cooler Screens
• DXC Technology: DXC Merchandise Planning & Forecasting
• EY: EY Retail Intelligence
• Flintfox: Flintfox Intelligent Pricing Retail
• Fractal/Neal Analytics: Fractal-Asper
• Kyndryl: Cloud-based insights
• SAS: SAS Intelligent Planning Cloud
• SES-imagotag: V:Cloud
• Shopic: Shopic – Frictionless Shopping Experience
• Sitecore: Sitecore Content Hub^TM
• Tata Consultancy Services: TCS Optumera^TM
• Wipro: Wipro Endless Aisle

Today we are partnering with leading independent software vendors and system integrators to help retailers become more resilient. Using Microsoft Cloud for Retail—including the new Smart Store Analytics and Store Operations Assist capabilities—retailers can navigate the headwinds they face and create an innovative retail future.

If you’re a retailer, find all the right solutions for your retail company today at the Microsoft Cloud for Retail Appsource Gallery. Our cloud is designed to help you embrace innovation, create retail-specific industry processes, and accelerate time to value.

If you’re a prospective partner, learn how to join our network and boost your business.

New retail possibilities

Moving to the cloud creates incredible opportunities across the retail industry. It helps retailers take advantage of common data models and makes them better able to put their data to work, apply intelligence, extract insights, and deliver better customer and employee experiences. Make your move to the Microsoft Cloud for Retail today!

Learn more

• Microsoft Cloud for Retail – Partner Site
• Get our e-book: Framing the Future of Retail: Realizing the Power of Data
• Follow our Microsoft Industry Retail blog

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