Microsoft expands Azure scalability for Healthcare Organizations
Microsoft has expanded Azure's scalability for running Epic's Chronicles Operational Database (ODB) to 65 million global references per second (GRefs/s). This enhancement, utilizing the new Mbv3 VM series with Azure Boost and Ultra Disk, covers 94% of the Epic market and significantly boosts performance for large health care providers using Epic on Azure.
Microsoft Purview - Compliance Score (Part 1) - Overview
Blog Series Part 1 - Microsoft Purview - Compliance Score (Part 1) -Overview Part 2 - Microsoft Purview - Compliance Score (Part 2) -Sample Assessment Scoring Part 3 - Microsoft Purview - Compliance Score (Part 3) -HITRUST Part 4 -Microsoft Purview -Compliance Score (Part 4) -HIPAA / HITECH Part 5 -Microsoft Purview -Compliance Score (Part 5) -GDPR Part 6 -Microsoft Purview -Compliance Score (Part 6) -CCPA Part 7 -Microsoft Purview -Compliance Score (Part 7) -Data Protection Baseline Part 8 -Microsoft Purview -Compliance Score (Part 😎 -ARMA GARP Part 9 -Microsoft Purview -Compliance Score (Part 9) -NIST Privacy Framework Part 10 -Microsoft Purview -Compliance Score (Part 10) -ISO 15489 Disclaimer This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to that official documentation and contact your Microsoft Account team as needed. Links to the docs.microsoft.com data will be referenced both in the document steps as well as in the appendix. All of the following steps should be done with test data, and where possible, testing should be performed in a test environment. Testing should never be performed against production data. Target Audience This blog series is aimed at Security and Compliance officers who need to understand how the Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager assessments can help them meet their regulatory and certification needs. Document Scope This document will be covering: the goal of this blog series discussing Compliance Manager assessment at a high level and how to leverage them to meet a business need such as HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, NIST, etc Out-of-Scope This document does not cover any other aspect of Microsoft E5 Purview, including: Compliance Manager (configuration) Data Classification Information Protection Data Protection Loss (DLP) for Exchange, OneDrive, Devices Data Lifecycle Management (retention and disposal) Records Management (retention and disposal) eDiscovery Insider Risk Management (IRM) Priva Advanced Audit Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) Information Barriers Communications Compliance Licensing For details on licensing (ie. which components and functions of Purview are in E3 vs E5) you will need to contact your Microsoft Security Specialist, Account Manager, or certified partner. We will not be walking through the HITRUST assessment step-by-step. For more information on running an assessment in Compliance Manager, you should reference the corresponding documentation listed in the Appendix and Links section below. You can also find a blog series covering how to do this and how to run other Purview functions at the following link: Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview - Microsoft Tech Community Overview of Document We will be walking through: the goal of this blog series Compliance Manager and What it does Compliance Score Compliance Manager – finding applicable Microsoft Solutions Use Case Using Compliance Manager assessments to meeting government regulations or industry certifications. Definitions Actions– the things that need to be done to mark a Control as completed and Assessments – these help you implement data protection controls specified by compliance, security, privacy, and data protection standards, regulations, and laws. Assessments include actions that have been taken by Microsoft to protect your data, and they're completed when you take action to implement the controls included in the assessment. Assessment Templates – these templates track compliance with over 300 industry and government regulations around the world. Compliance Score - Compliance Manager awards you points for completing improvement actions taken to comply with a regulation, standard, or policy, and combines those points into an overall compliance score. Each action has a different impact on your score depending on the potential risks involved. Your compliance score can help prioritize which action to focus on to improve your overall compliance posture. You receive an initial score based on the Microsoft 365 data protection baseline. This baseline is a set of controls that includes key regulations and standards for data protection and general data governance. Controls – the various requirements in your tenant that must be met to meet a part of an assessment Control Family – a grouping of Controls Microsoft Actions – These are actions that Microsoft has performed in side of your tenant to help it meet a specific assessment. Progress – each assessment has a progress chart to help you visualize the progress you are making to meet the requirements of the assessment Your Improvement Actions – These are actions that you and your organization must perform to meet a specific assessment. Regulations – the regulations or standards pertaining to the action (Microsoft) Solutions – the solution where you can go to perform the action Action Types – indicates whether the improvement action is technical, meaning it can be implemented within a solution or product, or non-technical, which would be implemented outside of a technical solution Group - the group to which you assigned the action Categories – the related data protection category (such as, protect information, manage devices, etc.) Notes None Pre-requisites You should have a basic understanding of Compliance Manager and how it works. You can find this information in the blog named “Paint By Numbers” and the official Microsoft documentation found at docs.microsoft.com. You an find links to these in the section below labeled Appendix and Links. Overview of this blog series This blog will review specific Microsoft Compliance Manager Assessments and how they relate to Microsoft Purview solutions. Here is a list of the specific assessments: HITRUST for Microsoft 365 HIPAA/HITECH for Microsoft 365 GDPR for Microsoft 365 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) for Microsoft 365 Data Protection Baseline for Microsoft 365 This is not meant to be an exhaustive list as there are 700+ assessments in Compliance Manager as of the writing of this blog. Overview of Compliance Manager and What it does Here is the official answer as listed in docs.microsoft.com “Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is a feature in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal that helps you manage your organization’s compliance requirements with greater ease and convenience. Compliance Manager can help you throughout your compliance journey, from taking inventory of your data protection risks to managing the complexities of implementing controls, staying current with regulations and certifications, and reporting to auditors.” Compliance Manager – What does it scan and track? Each assessment in Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager tracks all the regulatory/certification requirements relative to your Microsoft 365/Office 365 environment. Here is a visualization on how this scanning and tracking works. Compliance Score Here is the official definition as found in docs.microsoft.com. The URL can be found in t Appendix and Links section below. “Compliance Manager awards you points for completing improvement actions taken to comply with a regulation, standard, or policy, and combines those points into an overall compliance score. Each action has a different impact on your score depending on the potential risks involved. Your compliance score can help prioritize which action to focus on to improve your overall compliance posture. Compliance Manager gives you an initial score based on the Microsoft 365 data protection baseline. This baseline is a set of controls that includes key regulations and standards for data protection and general data governance.” Compliance Manager – Finding Applicable Microsoft Solutions Built into Compliance Manager is a way to review which Microsoft Solutions will be applicable to each certification/regulation along with the Compliance Score that each of these solutions will bring to your organization. Go to Compliance Manager -> Solutions Here you will see all the Microsoft solutions that are applicable to the assessments you have run. On the right hands side, click Filters You can filter these solutions based on various criteria: Regulations – the regulations or standards pertaining to the action (Microsoft) Solutions – the solution where you can go to perform the action Action Types – indicates whether the improvement action is technical, meaning it can be implemented within a solution or product, or non-technical, which would be implemented outside of a technical solution Group - the group to which you assigned the action Categories – the related data protection category (such as, protect information, manage devices, etc.) You can filter any of these criteria, but we will choose Regulation -> Data Protection Baseline for purposes in this blog. This will narrow ALL Microsoft Solutions down to just the ones relevant to a particular Assessment/Regulation/Certification. You can narrow this further by Categories. Here I will select the categories relevant to Purview/Compliance workloads: Discover and Respond, Govern information, Manage compliance, Privacy Management, and Protect information. For now, we will not run any other filters inside the Compliance Manager -> Solutions section. Returning to the Solutions page, we will now look at the two columns relevant to your Compliance Score: Current score contribution and Potential score remaining. These will allow you to know which Microsoft Solutions will provide the most value to meeting your regulation/certification needs. We are now done with looking at the Compliance Manager – Solutions page. Microsoft Managed Scoring Compliance Manager keeps track of both 1) the organizations responsibilities (ie. Your organization) and 2) Microsoft’s responsibilities, as they pertain each assessment, and then maps a score to those responsibilities. Here is an example of where you would find both of these scores in a Compliance Manager assessment that I have already run. I have gone to Compliance Manager -> Assessment -> HITRUST Then go to Progress tab on the right side to find the Your points achieved score and Microsoft managed points achieved score. Thank Yous Before finishing this overview, I want to thank the members of the Microsoft Health Life Sciences Purview Technical Specialist team (HLS Purview TS) team for their assistance in creating, researching and developing this blog series. This includes, but is not limited to: Erfan Setork, Ken Sicinski, and Chad Lightfoot. Appendix and Links Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs Working with improvement actions in Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs Build and manage assessments in Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs About the Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager premium assessment trial - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager alerts and alert policies - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs Get started with Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs Compliance score calculation - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Learn Working with improvement actions in Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Learn Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview - Microsoft Tech Community Note: This solution is a sample and may be used with Microsoft Compliance tools for dissemination of reference information only. This solution is not intended or made available for use as a replacement for professional and individualized technical advice from Microsoft or a Microsoft certified partner when it comes to the implementation of a compliance and/or advanced eDiscovery solution and no license or right is granted by Microsoft to use this solution for such purposes. This solution is not designed or intended to be a substitute for professional technical advice from Microsoft or a Microsoft certified partner when it comes to the design or implementation of a compliance and/or advanced eDiscovery solution and should not be used as such. Customer bears the sole risk and responsibility for any use. Microsoft does not warrant that the solution or any materials provided in connection therewith will be sufficient for any business purposes or meet the business requirements of any person or organization.
Seamlessly use social determinants of health data in healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric
Social determinants of health are the social conditions that contribute to an individual’s or a population group’s health outcomes, like place of birth, median household income, and access to transportation. Research and real-world evidence have established that SDOH information can complement medical information. This helps healthcare organizations understand their patients’ health profile more comprehensively and facilitate tailored care interventions. However, a fundamental challenge in leveraging SDOH data arises due to the lack of a standard data collection and exchange mechanism. To simplify this process, we are thrilled to announce the public preview ofSDOH datasets- transformations (SDOH) in healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric. It fuels large-scale analytics by enabling the unification of social determinants of health data with core healthcare domains like clinical & claims. Key features SDOH information can be seen in two forms- Public datasets that contain social determinant details aggregated at a geographic level, and patient-level SDOH data that depict those characteristics of an individual that might pose health risks. This release focuses on the public SDOH datasets, which comes with, A simple and intuitive data preparation mechanism to ready the datasets for ingestion into healthcare data solutions. The supported data formats are .csv and .xlsx. A set of powerful pipelines and notebooks that allow effortless transformation of the datasets into tabular shapes. Eight sample datasets across various SDOH domains that you can readily leverage for your use cases. As the data progresses through the medallion Lakehouse, it gets persisted within a robust data model, custom-built for the SDOH modality. This eases the process of combining SDOH data with other modalities, unlocking use cases such as Care management analytics, Risk stratification, and Population health. How it works The SDOH capability follows three simple steps to transform the disparate datasets into a unified data model, Data preparation and ingestion- As there are no established standards to collect and exchange the information captured in these datasets, it is necessary to unify them into a common shape before they can be ingested. This step requires you to add three sheets in your original dataset to capture key details like publisher information, description of the data columns, and location information. The shipped sample datasets are pre-populated with all the necessary information. Landing zone to bronze- Once the datasets are prepared, they can be uploaded into the landing zone. The bronze notebook will then populate all the key details in the bronze lake in delta table format. Bronze to silver- This notebook normalizes the data from the bronze lake into the custom SDOH data model in the silver lake by creating dedicated tables and establishing relationships between them. It preserves the context of the source tables to help you easily identify or query the data. You can trigger the SDOH pipeline to run all the steps after data preparation at one go and thereafter utilize the normalized silver lake data to build your analytical scenarios. Get started today The SDOH public preview is available in healthcare data solutions for teams to start using today. For a more detailed overview of the capability and the necessary configurations needed to deploy it, please check out the official documentation. Medical device disclaimer: Microsoft products and services (1) are not designed, intended or made available as a medical device, and (2) are not designed or intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or judgment and should not be used to replace or as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or judgment. Customers/partners are responsible for ensuring solutions comply with applicable laws and regulations.
Unlocking the Potential of Claims Data Insights in Healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric
As part of the continuous innovation withinhealthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric, we are excited to introduce our CMS Claims data transformations capability. This feature specifically tailored to handle CMS CCLF formats. By ingesting, CMS Claims data into healthcare data solutions enables customers to assess the effectiveness of their care management programs, monitor population-level trends and utilization, also and measure their performance against benchmarks to reduce overall claim expenses and improve patient care. Leveraging the Medallion Lakehouse architecture, this feature allows healthcare organizations to seamlessly integrate claims data into the unified data platform provided in Microsoft Fabric. This solution supports scalable data ingestion and transformation workflows that convert claims data into tabular shapes, promoting efficient healthcare delivery and decision-making. The Medallion Lakehouse for Claims Data The Medallion Lakehouse architecture for claims data is built on the foundational layers of Microsoft Fabric’s healthcare data solutions. This architecture is designed to support the ingestion, transformation, and analysis of healthcare claims data. It comprises three fundamental layers: Bronze (Raw Zone): The first layer stores raw claims data in its original CCLF format. This raw zone acts as a staging area where files are ingested directly into the Lakehouse, maintaining the data’s original integrity. It supports native and compressed file types of the claims format, ensuring compatibility and flexibility in data processing. Silver (Enriched Zone): This intermediate layer focuses on processing and enriching the raw claims data by transforming it into structured formats based on the FHIR specifications. It leverages data transformation tools to parse and map the claims data into FHIR financial resources, storing the transformed data in a format optimized for querying and analysis. Gold (Curated Zone): The final layer aggregates the enriched data to create a highly curated dataset, optimized for reporting and analytics. In this zone, the data is further transformed into OMOP CDM (Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model) or a custom data model. The mapping ensures compatibility with various analytical and machine-learning models that healthcare organizations might deploy for deeper insights. Conceptual architecture The volume and complexity of claims data often require robust solutions to manage and extract valuable insights efficiently. Microsoft Fabric’s Medallion Lakehouse provides a comprehensive approach to handling these needs, offering three distinct ingestion patterns based on organizational requirements and existing data infrastructure: End to End execution steps Step 1: Create a workspace and add health solutions capability. Step 2: Setup healthcare data solutions on your Fabric workspace. Follow the guidance from the deployment wizard and add sample data if needed. Step 3: Select the CMS claims data transformations capability and click on Deploy. Step 4: Upload the CCLF files in following folder structure Ingest\Claims\CCLF\<namespace> Ingest folder structure to upload the CCLF files Step 5: Run the claims data pipeline to transform the data from the Bronze Lakehouse to Silver Lakehouse. Step 6: To validate the ingested and transformed data, check the ExplanationOfBenefits table to view the data The CMS claims data transformations capability within Microsoft Fabric’s Medallion Lakehouse architecture offers a powerful and scalable solution for healthcare organizations to integrate, manage, and analyse claims data effectively. By transforming raw claims data into FHIR, healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric enables seamless interoperability and supports advanced analytics, providing a robust foundation for enhanced healthcare delivery and operational efficiency. For further details and documentation,Overview of CMS claims data transformations(preview) FHIR® is a registered trademark of Health Level Seven International, registered in the U.S. Trademark Office, and is used with their permission. Medical device disclaimer: Microsoft products and services (1) are not designed, intended or made available as a medical device, and (2) are not designed or intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or judgment and should not be used to replace or as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or judgment. Customers/partners are responsible for ensuring solutions comply with applicable laws and regulations.Introducing the Open Targets Dataset: Now Available on Genomics Data Lake on Azure
Access the Open Targets dataset on Azure to accelerate biomedical research. This open-access resource connects genetic, biological, and clinical data, helping researchers identify and prioritize drug targets efficiently🦸🏾♀️Analyze your communications: Superhero to Organization Leader Analysis Prompt evolution
In this snackable you will learn how you can analyze your emails, meetings, and chats to understand who your superhero, anime character, and leadership style is. This video goes through the evolution of prompting on a fun topic to one that is focused on professional growth. To see all HLS Copilot Snacks videoclick here.Sign Up Now! Empowering HLS Business Leaders with Copilot for M365
You're invited to Microsoft’s Chicago Office or Virtually Join us in person or virtually with experts from Microsoft and Accenture for an immersive and interactive session to show how Copilot for Microsoft 365 will empower an entirely new way of working. Discover how this cutting-edge AI technology is bringing the power of next-generation AI to work and transforming the way how your organization does business. Hear from industry experts including Dr. Tej Shah, Managing Director at Accenture, and many other healthcare technologythought leaders as they share best practices and innovation case studies they are seeing across the globe Attendance in person is limited to 25 people only. Reserve your seat today and enjoy complimentary lunch and exclusive swag! Sessions include: Executive Opening The Future of Healthcare Introducing Copilot for M365 Copilot Overview Voice of our customers Empowering HLS Business Leaders with Copilot for M365 October 3rd | 9:30 AM – 2:00 PM CST Microsoft Chicago Office 200 East Randolph Drive, Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60601 View map> REGISTERTODAY! Schedule 9:30 am - 10:00 am Registration, Check-in, and Continental Breakfast 10:00 am - 10:15 am Executive Keynote Introduction by Jesse Washington 10:15 am - 11:00 am The Future of Healthcare & Q&A by Dr. Tej Shah 11:00 am - 11:30 pm Introducing Copilot for Microsoft 365 11:30 pm - 12:00 pm Lunch & Networking 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Copilot for M365 Overview - Why Copilot 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm See Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Action with HLS-Specific Use Cases 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Voice of the customer – Panel Discussion 1:30 pm – 1:45 pm Closing & Thank You
