Plan and prepare for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare in 2024 release wave 1

Important

The 2024 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2024 to September 2024. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.

Overview

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare provides capabilities to manage health data at scale and makes it easier for healthcare organizations to improve patient experience, coordinate care, and drive operational efficiency. By bringing together capabilities from Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Azure AI, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare expedites a healthcare organization’s ability to roll out solutions. Patients, providers, and care coordinators can carry out their daily tasks in a modern, yet familiar, user interface.

For 2024 release wave 1, we're focusing on enhancing platform capabilities by adding functionalities to improve clinical and operational insights. Additionally, we also aim to accelerate innovation by implementing low-code tools that can streamline the development process of FHIR applications, effectively reducing their development time and costs.

Updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare 2024 release wave 1

Investment areas

Improve clinical and operational insights
Health and life science customers are increasingly moving their data estates to the cloud to leverage analytics and insights, AI, patient engagement, and machine learning. We're enabling advanced analytics for healthcare customers leveraging clinical and operational data managed in Microsoft’s intelligent data platform. These capabilities combine industry data models, data pipelines, analytical dashboards, data governance templates, and implementation reference playbooks that can be leveraged by healthcare IT teams to improve their time to value for cloud analytics.

These insights offer the following benefits to users:

• Leverage insights to improve patient care by connecting data from multiple sources and using predictive analytics for data modeling and identifying clinical trends.
• Analyze and quickly mobilize clinical and operational data for reporting, assessment, and ongoing quality improvement.
• Make each patient touchpoint more relevant with proactive, data-driven insights to align patients with providers based on eligibility and benefits.
• Healthcare providers can improve patient care by reviewing data across patients' health journeys and combining their health trends with population health and risk factors.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare below:

Check out the release plan