July in HLS – Healthcare Shorts, Microsoft Viva, Machine Learning, and More

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Welcome to the monthly Healthcare and Life Sciences blog recap, July edition! Check out the highlights below:

Healthcare Shorts

• Ad-hock Virtual Visits: Learn how to send a quick and easy virtual visit link to patients. Watch the video here.
• Clinical Inquiry Assistant Bot: See how clinicians can find patient information and be alerted with test results via the Microsoft Clinical Inquiry Bot. See the video here.  
• Predictive Diagnosis: Learn how to leverage Predictive Diagnostic Algorithms to empower frontline healthcare workers. Watch the video here.
• Nurse Handoff & Rounding App: In this video, see how the Omniround Power App and Dashboard can help nurses during both physical and virtual rounds. Learn more here.
• Predicting and Closing Gaps in Care: Learn how this model can provide recommendations to care team members to improve patient engagement. See the video here.
• Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport: See how the CMS Innovation Center created a voluntary, five-year payment model that will increase efficiency in the EMS system and encourage appropriate utilization of emergency medical services. Learn more here.  

PowerApps

• Custom Connectors and Component Framework: Learn how to create and use a custom connector in Power Apps. Click here to learn more.
• Predictive Diagnostics using Power Apps in Teams with Azure ML: See how Power Apps using Azure Machine Learning can make a presumptive medical diagnosis based on answers about symptoms entered by a user. Learn more here.

Azure

• Azure Communication Service: Learn how Azure Communication Service can provide HIPAA compliant SMS, video, and telephony capabilities. Click here to learn more.  
• Neural Networks for Image Analysis: Read how AI can analyze medical images and assist human radiologists. Read the post here.
• Azure Communication Service Quick Tips: Interested in setting up Azure Communication Services? This documentation outlines how to enable ACS voice and video setup. Read the post here.
• Synthetic FHIR and PacBio VCF Data: Learn how to convert Synthetic FHIR and PacBio VCF Data to parquet and explore with Azure Synapse Analytics. Learn more here.

Microsoft Viva

• Viva Connections Immersive Virtual Tours: See how you can deliver a virtual reality tour of any facility for clinicians and other care team providers using Microsoft Viva. Watch the episode here.

Power BI

• New Health & Life Sciences Power BI User Group: Join the new Health and Life Sciences Power BI User Group to enable collaboration across the healthcare industry. Join the group here.

July's HLS Blog Contributors:

Michael Gannotti, Principal Technical Specialist, Microsoft Teams

Greg Beaumont, Senior Technical Specialist, Intelligence

Shelly Avery, Senior Technical Specialist, Microsoft Teams

Daniel Kim, Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Health and Life Sciences

Joe Karasha, Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Health and Life Sciences

Maggie Beyer, Senior Technical Specialist, Power BI

Erdal Cosgun, Senior Data & Applied Scientist

Thanks for reading and let us know how else our Microsoft team can help!

Erin Spencer, Technical Specialist, Microsoft Teams