Microsoft Plans to Expand Azure API Health IT and Cloud Computing Offerings

planning to expand its Azure API (application programming interface) for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) while providing customers with additional data management and cloud computing health IT tools. Also, the existing customers can continue using the product without service disruption or pricing changes.

Azure Healthcare predominantly APIs aims to help care organizations manage protected health information (PHI) data at scale by streamlining the health-based workloads and improving healthcare analytics. Microsoft stated that the company would be offering health data across patient outputs in the cloud sector to make PHI data sharing easier.

The new service aims to support the rapid exchange of data using the latest APIs in compliance with health data standards like FHIR and Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine (DICOM). The customers can manage imaging files in the cloud through APIs uniquely designed for DICOM. Also, the users can manage enterprise data workloads with high availability and disaster recovery support. Azure Healthcare APIs allow customers to manage their data regulations with certifications for ISO, HITRUST, FedRAMP, SOC, and in scope for the Azure BAA.