{"id":39807,"date":"2019-12-02T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/industry\/blog\/?p=39807"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T00:26:43","slug":"reimagining-healthcare-partnering-for-a-better-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/healthcare\/2019\/12\/02\/reimagining-healthcare-partnering-for-a-better-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Reimagining healthcare: Partnering for a better future"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has never been a more exciting time to be working in healthcare and life sciences at Microsoft. Our investments across our organization in research and development, world-class talent, and strategic partnerships reflect our CEO Satya Nadella\u2019s vision that many of the next health breakthroughs will come from healthcare and life sciences organizations working in partnership with technology companies like Microsoft. With our partners and our customers, we are just beginning to unlock the power of technology and innovation to advance our shared understanding of human health.<\/p>\n

This unique opportunity to make a lasting, positive impact on healthcare is one of the reasons I joined Microsoft. For decades, Microsoft has built a reputation as a trusted partner, now counting more than 168,000 healthcare organizations around the world who rely on us. As we\u2019ve built out platforms for cloud infrastructure, productivity and collaboration, and artificial intelligence, we\u2019ve developed an ecosystem of hundreds of thousands of partners who are building on our technologies and bringing added value to our mutual customers.<\/p>\n

Innovation in medical imaging<\/h2>\n

Being new to Microsoft and a neuroradiologist, one of the areas I am most excited about is how we are helping our customers and partners reimagine healthcare and specifically explore the possibilities in medical imaging. In this area that is so critical to healthcare overall, we\u2019re fortunate to work with some of the leaders in the industry.<\/p>\n

GE Healthcare customers in the United States can take advantage of solutions running on Microsoft Azure such as the newly developed Edison\u2122 Datalogue\u2122 Connect, which was designed to provide secure image and data exchange to physicians working in their care settings.<\/p>\n

Philips\u2019 Azurion image-guided therapy platform<\/a> empowers providers through image-guided minimally invasive therapies. Built for HoloLens 2, the work-in-progress Azurion mixed reality platform brings live imaging and other sources of vital data \u2014 currently displayed on large external 2D screens \u2014 into a 3D holographic environment that can be controlled by the physician.<\/p>\n

Nuance, a leader in radiology reporting solutions with its PowerScribe platform, continues to lead the way in bringing ambient technologies to healthcare. We recently announced a strategic partnership<\/a> with Nuance to accelerate that innovation, bringing together Nuance\u2019s healthcare-optimized AI powered clinical documentation and decision support solutions and Microsoft Azure, advanced conversational AI, and natural language understanding.<\/p>\n

Working together with researchers and industry partners, we\u2019re also moving forward to create a broad range of cloud-based tools and solutions that touch many aspects of the development and delivery of effective care, including:<\/p>\n