Azure is Microsoft’s brand of platform- and infrastructure-as-a-service (PaaS and IaaS). Azure’s PaaS allows healthcare providers to adopt Microsoft’s artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies as they build, test, deploy, manage, and update their own proprietary applications. [...]
When it comes to protected health information (PHI), health professionals and their partners walk a fine line between giving authorized parties immediate access to it and blocking everyone else. Data accessibility via the cloud allows doctors from practically any hospital to be immediately informed about critical patient information. If, for instance, a person gets into a car accident and is knocked unconscious, that person can’t say which medicine they are fatally allergic to or if they have legally issued a Do Not Resuscitate order for themselves. In cases such as these, accessing PHI quickly is critical. [...]
