Microsoft recently that they have acquired Nuance as they accelerate their efforts to provide industry specific cloud solutions. Nuance is a pioneer and a leading provider of conversational AI and cloud-based ambient clinical intelligence for healthcare providers.
In February, Microsoft announced new Microsoft for cloud healthcare features to address the needs of the rapidly changing healthcare industry. These healthcare features include among others;
Enhancing patient engagement for clinicians and other health workers; A patient or clinician to create and schedule visits through Teams or Epic EHR. A clinician can see the patients on appointment waiting to consult and allow them plan. With Dynamics 365, all patient data is in one place and there is no need to move through different systems to get a complete patient record.
Improving clinical and operational analytics in that Building an architecture with Azure will expose you to tools that were built to support data exchange.
Empowering health team collaboration; Through virtual care, hospitals can offer non urgent patient visits in their homes. Clinicians also stay connected in the system and offer various remote monitoring features.
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With this acquisition, Microsoft will be better able to empower healthcare providers through the power of ambient clinical intelligence and other Microsoft cloud services. “Nuance provides the AI layer at the healthcare point of delivery and is a pioneer in the real-world application of enterprise AI,” said Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft. He went on to say that AI is technology’s most important priority, and healthcare is its most urgent application.
Both parties at Nuance and Microsoft agreed for the acquisition to occur and it is likely to be sealed by the end of this year. This will create time to engage with shareholders for both parties.
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