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Microsoft adds Cloud for Healthcare data and AI enhancements

New tools announced this week enable Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare users to access, analyze and visualize data-driven insights across their organization through Fabric architecture, find multilingual support for text analytics, and leverage three new artificial intelligence models in Azure.

The cloud provider also said more users will have the chance to try Azure AI Health Bot, a generative artificial intelligence assistant that can glean information from unstructured text, while select partners using Fabric will have a chance to preview de-identification services.

WHY IT MATTERS

Microsoft announced Tuesday that new data and AI capabilities will help healthcare organizations improve patient experiences,

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Expanding equitable access to health information on YouTube

While Aloud is initially available only to trusted testers on YouTube, we’re starting to work with Mass General Brigham, Osmosis from Elsevier, The Journal of the American Medical Association and Global Health Media Project to make their health content available in Spanish and Portuguese, with more creators and languages ​​to come. Aloud will help creators make the dubbing process easy and fast. And the YouTube Health team will work with clinicians to review translations, while the creators will have ultimate control over their dubbed videos.

Our goal with the pilot is to take the learnings and responsibly scale Aloud with

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WHO and HL7 collaborate to support adoption of open interoperability standards

Recognizing the importance of interoperability standards in digital health transformation, WHO and standards-development organization, Health Level Seven International (HL7®), signed a Project Collaboration Agreement to support the adoption of open interoperability standards, globally. Adoption of interoperability standards is critical for consistent representation of data and information in health. This consistency allows for various digital health solutions to seamlessly communicate and exchange information, enabling and supporting continuity of care at all levels of the health system, regardless of the software used. For example, interoperable digital solutions can ensure that information from a primary care provider can be easily shared with a

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The massive health care hack is now being investigated by the federal Office of Civil Rights

Federal civil rights investigators are looking into whether protected health information was exposed in the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare.

The Office for Civil Rights said Wednesday that it will also examine whether Change Healthcare followed laws protecting patient privacy.

Change Healthcare provides technology used to submit and process insurance claims — and handles about 14 billion transactions a year.

The investigation was spurred by the “unprecedented magnitude” of the attack, Office for Civil Rights Director Melanie Fontes Rainer said in a letter.

The Office for Civil Rights, which is part of the US Department of Health and Human Services,

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