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Azure Health Data Services

Unify and manage health data and protected health information (PHI) in the cloud.
Overview

Build, manage, and analyze health data on Azure

  • Azure Health Data Services is a suite of purpose-built technologies for protected health information (PHI) in the cloud. It's built on the global open standards Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)® and Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine (DICOM). Ensure data privacy within compliance boundaries, de-identify data for secondary use, and generate insights with analytics and AI tools.
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  • Azure Health Data Services is the evolved version of Azure API for FHIR and offers additional technology and services. Existing customers can continue using the product without disruption to service or change in pricing structure.
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  • Unify healthcare data in the cloud to make PHI easier to exchange across the care continuum. Standardize diverse data streams such as clinical, imaging, device, and unstructured data using FHIR, DICOM, and MedTech services.
  • Prepare standardized data for advanced AI and machine learning applications and create cohorts for clinical research and trials. Connect to Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics for visualizations and analytics, use SMART on FHIR apps to build new applications, and apply machine learning to create new algorithms for diagnosis assistance and research.
  • Azure Health Data Services is HITRUST CSF certified, which helps organizations store PHI in accordance with HIPAA and GDPR requirements and meet ONC and CMS mandates. Control access of health data with application monitoring and role-based access controls within a compliance boundary.
  • Move from reactive to proactive care for better patient outcomes and experiences. Use the MedTech service to ingest high-frequency biometric data from devices, including wearables. Standardize that data into FHIR to view in context with other clinical datasets. Enable remote monitoring of patients with chronic diseases, accelerate decentralized clinical trials, and allow patients access to virtual care.
  • Streamline radiology and digital pathology workflows with DICOM cast technology. Manage, store, query, retrieve, and exchange DICOM files in the cloud. Query metadata across clinical and imaging records to reduce time to diagnosis. Process medical imaging data into research cohorts quickly and at scale.
Features

Unified health data, insights, and compliance—built for the cloud

Deploy fast

Quick deployment of managed, enterprise-grade FHIR, DICOM, and MedTech services.

Normalize data

Tools to combine disparate health datasets and standardize data in the cloud.

Drive insights

Connectors to Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Machine Learning, and Power BI to generate insights from real-world data.

Built compliant

Designed for protected health information (PHI), meeting all regional compliance requirements including HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA.
Security

Embedded security and compliance

34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
 
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
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Pricing

Plan ahead with simple, transparent pricing

Customer stories

Trusted by companies of all sizes

Frequently asked questions

  • Azure Health Data Services has evolved to support multiple health data standards for the exchange of structured data. A single collection of APIs allows you to deploy multiple data service instances of different service types (FHIR, DICOM, and IoT Connector) that work seamlessly with one another.
  • HL7 FHIR, or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, is an open-standard data model that enables data interoperability for systems using FHIR. Learn more.
  • Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is the standard for the communication and management of medical imaging information and related data. DICOM is most commonly used for storing and transmitting medical images enabling the integration of medical imaging devices such as scanners, servers, workstations, printers, and network hardware.
  • The Azure Health Data Services de-identification service is a cloud-based API service that applies state-of-the-art machine learning models to automatically extract, redact, or surrogate protected health information (PHI) entities—including HIPAA’s 18 PHI identifiers – from unstructured text such as clinical notes, transcriptions, messages, or clinical trial studies.
  • Detailed pricing information is available on the pricing page.
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