This post was co-authored by Heather Jordan Cartwright, General Manager, Microsoft HealthcareCloud computing is rapidly becoming a bigger and more central part of the infrastructure of healthcare.
As we head into global partner conference Microsoft Inspire (July 14-18, 2019), the focus is how to help drive more collaboration with and between our partner community and the Microsoft customer base.
Throughout our Internet of Things (IoT) journey we’ve seen solutions evolve from device-centric models, to spatially-aware solutions that provide real-world context.
Since the launch of the open source FHIR Server for Azure on GitHub last November, we have been humbled by the tremendously positive response and surge in the use of FHIR in the healthcare community.
Mobility has become the center of an array of new technologies running the gamut from cloud-based algorithms and ride-sharing services, to edge cognition, assisted driving, and traffic pattern analysis – all in an effort to move people and things from one location to another more efficiently.
One of the largest gatherings of healthcare IT developers will come together on the Microsoft campus next week for HL7 FHIR DevDays, with the goal of advancing the open standard for interoperable health data, called HL7® FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, pronounced “fire”).