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Microsoft\u2019s Azure API<\/a> for FHIR offers healthcare data exchange backed by a managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering and is intended for customers developing solutions that integrate healthcare data from one or more systems of record, according to the vendor.

\u201cWe are thrilled to release this,\u201d said Heather Jordan Cartwright, general manager of Microsoft Healthcare, who notes that the Azure API is the first in a series of tools that are \u201cspecifically designed for the management, ingestion, and enrichment\u201d of data in native FHIR resources.

According to Cartwright, the Azure API for FHIR builds on the release in November 2018 of Microsoft Healthcare\u2019s FHIR Server for Azure, an open source project on GitHub that provides support infrastructure for provisioning in the cloud.

Also See:<\/b> Microsoft releases FHIR Server for Azure to empower developers<\/a>

The Azure API is currently available in public preview and the company has more than 25 technology partners in its early access program to now help healthcare organizations build FHIR-enabled services.

\u201cAnyone working with health data can go and access it and start to use it,\u201d comments Cartwright. \u201cIt allows you to create and deploy a FHIR service in literally just a few minutes in the cloud environment allowing you to start exchanging data in the native FHIR format.\u201d

\u201cOur customers that are using it really just pay for the underlying database usage and data transfer,\u201d she adds.

Microsoft\u2019s initial release of the Azure API supports FHIR Standard for Trial Use (STU) 3. However, a future version of the API will support FHIR Release 4, the normative version of the interoperability standard published by HL7 in January.

\u201cWe\u2019re bullish on FHIR,\u201d concludes Cartwright. \u201cIn starting to use the cloud in healthcare, we need to have an open source standard that the entire community can rally around and share data.\u201d

She contends that leveraging the open source standard and the power of the cloud will help to apply machine learning at scale in the healthcare industry by \u201cnormalizing the data (in FHIR) and getting it into a (common) format.\u201d
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Microsoft\u2019s Azure API<\/a> for FHIR offers healthcare data exchange backed by a managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering and is intended for customers developing solutions that integrate healthcare data from one or more systems of record, according to the vendor.

\u201cWe are thrilled to release this,\u201d said Heather Jordan Cartwright, general manager of Microsoft Healthcare, who notes that the Azure API is the first in a series of tools that are \u201cspecifically designed for the management, ingestion, and enrichment\u201d of data in native FHIR resources.

According to Cartwright, the Azure API for FHIR builds on the release in November 2018 of Microsoft Healthcare\u2019s FHIR Server for Azure, an open source project on GitHub that provides support infrastructure for provisioning in the cloud.

Also See:<\/b> Microsoft releases FHIR Server for Azure to empower developers<\/a>

The Azure API is currently available in public preview and the company has more than 25 technology partners in its early access program to now help healthcare organizations build FHIR-enabled services.

\u201cAnyone working with health data can go and access it and start to use it,\u201d comments Cartwright. \u201cIt allows you to create and deploy a FHIR service in literally just a few minutes in the cloud environment allowing you to start exchanging data in the native FHIR format.\u201d

\u201cOur customers that are using it really just pay for the underlying database usage and data transfer,\u201d she adds.

Microsoft\u2019s initial release of the Azure API supports FHIR Standard for Trial Use (STU) 3. However, a future version of the API will support FHIR Release 4, the normative version of the interoperability standard published by HL7 in January.

\u201cWe\u2019re bullish on FHIR,\u201d concludes Cartwright. \u201cIn starting to use the cloud in healthcare, we need to have an open source standard that the entire community can rally around and share data.\u201d

She contends that leveraging the open source standard and the power of the cloud will help to apply machine learning at scale in the healthcare industry by \u201cnormalizing the data (in FHIR) and getting it into a (common) format.\u201d
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Microsoft launches Azure API for FHIR to share data in cloud

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