June’s live Cloud Wars Expo event featured dozens of industry leaders allowing the Acceleration Economy team access to the inner workings of the greatest growth market the world has ever known.
If you missed the Expo or just want to catch up on sessions you were not able to attend, then you’re in luck. We recorded more than 40 hours of education sessions from the event, which are available for free to Acceleration Economy subscribers. We’re also previewing the content in this series of Moments, which feature highlights from each session.
In this Cloud Wars Expo Moment, excerpted from the Industry Cloud Battleground Healthcare session, Dr. David Rhew, Chief Medical Officer of Microsoft, explains the need for a healthcare industry cloud that can ingest, analyze, and collaborate across multiple sources of data. Rhew says that Microsoft Cloud for healthcare is the answer to the challenges that the industry is facing today.
Highlights
00:17 — Rhew begins by explaining how the pandemic has promoted dramatic shifts within the healthcare industry. The industry is becoming more data-driven and focused on virtual care, as it’s using AI and cloud technology to enhance user systems.
00:40 — Stakeholders in the healthcare industry are working towards the same goal of trying to tackle challenges in the healthcare industry. Challenges include improving the access, quality, and safety of patient care and bettering the experience for providers.
01:00 — The team at Microsoft realized that being focused on these outcomes means understanding that “data is the center.” Further, it is working to develop ways to make data more interoperable. Microsoft is focusing on building a platform that can ingest multiple sources of data that represents “the whole individual and where they are on their journey,” by using machine learning and AI.
02:18 — Microsoft Cloud for healthcare has a whole set of capabilities that are able to touch on data ingest, data analysis, and data collaboration that make achieving these outcomes possible.
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