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Oct 3
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Highlights from the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2024

The European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2024 was a celebration of innovation, collaboration, and the power of community. 

Announcing general availability of healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric and public preview of healthcare application templates in Microsoft Purview. Learn more about how Microsoft is enhancing healthcare with data and responsible AI. Read the latest Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare announcements. We are thrilled to announce the general availability of healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric, a comprehensive solution that enables organizations to ingest, store, and analyze healthcare-related data from various sources and modalities into one unified data store for analytics and AI. Also, the healthcare application templates in Microsoft Purview, an innovative suite of features designed to help you govern your healthcare data with confidence, is now available in public preview. With these advancements, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare now offers an expanded bundle of general availability services to further empower healthcare organizations in their digital transformation journey. EPAM, renowned for supporting Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare clients with advanced technical solutions, has experienced substantial benefits from leveraging healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric. These advantages manifest as heightened customer satisfaction, notable cost savings, and accelerated project timelines. The solution’s impact is particularly noteworthy as it provides healthcare clients with reliable, AI-ready data in an efficient manner. “For a recent AI and Advanced Analytics Solutions, our projections estimated a significant investment to develop the necessary data products for the analytics needs, with a substantial portion dedicated to establishing the data foundation. However, with the launch of this solution and a successful pilot, we were able to revise the project scope significantly. This resulted in more than 40% reduction in implementation time and costs, highlighting the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the solution.” —Brian Blanchard, Cloud Chief Technology Officer, EPAM Unify your multi-modal healthcare data for analytics and AI with healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric The general availability of healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric represents a significant leap in the journey towards data-centric healthcare. This all-encompassing platform streamlines the integration, preservation, and examination of diverse biomedical data, bridging the gaps between isolated data repositories and fostering powerful analytical insights. Microsoft Fabric Try free Healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric enables healthcare organizations to ingest, store, and analyze data from various sources and modalities. These data solutions provide a set of capabilities that enable a multi-modal biomedical lakehouse, which can handle clinical, imaging, claims, conversational, and social determinants of health (SDOH) data. It adheres to Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standards, introduces data transformations, and ensures a secure, regulatory-compliant framework for managing data. By using healthcare data solutions, you can benefit from the following features:  A unified data model that supports industry standards such as FHIR and DICOM. A rich set of data transformation and enrichment tools that prepare your data for analysis, as well as add clinical and demographic annotations.  A suite of data visualization and cohorting experiences, that can help you discover patterns, trends, and outliers in your data, as well as create dashboards and reports.  A secure and compliant environment that aims to meet the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, with role-based access control, data governance, and data lineage.  Additionally, we are pleased to announce the public preview of additional functionality that enhances the existing capabilities within our healthcare data solutions offering. These include: Conversational Data Integration: Enable customers to send their conversational data, such as patient conversations from DAX Copilot to Fabric. By sending DAX audio files, transcripts, and draft clinical notes to Fabric, customers and partners can leverage various native tools in Azure and Fabric to analyze this data or combine it with other data to generate comprehensive insights. Social determinants of health public datasets transformation: Ingest, persist, harmonize, and consume SDOH public datasets such as Location Affordability Index, Food Environment Atlas and Rural Atlas from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Justice Index, ACS Education Attainment, SDOH Dataset from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Australian Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), and United Kingdom Indices of Deprivation to enable healthcare organizations to identify risks and health-related social needs to create equitable health care for all patients and communities. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Claim and Claim Line Feed Files (CMS CCLF) claims data ingestion: Streamline the ingestion of CMS CCLF claims data and harmonize with clinical, imaging, and SDOH data to unlock actionable insights on patients and populations. Use this data to understand and manage healthcare costs, identify care gaps, and help health outcomes. Care management analytics: Leverage unified healthcare data and care management analytical templates to enhance patient care by identifying high-risk individuals, optimizing treatment plans, and improving care coordination and empower your organization to deliver personalized, efficient, and proactive care. Data discovery and cohorting: An integrated workflow that allows you to create, manage, analyze, and share patient cohorts. Create cohorts using natural language and export cohorts into AI pipelines, notebooks, or downstream applications. graphical user interface, website Figure 1: Microsoft Fabric—Enabling healthcare data solution capabilities. With healthcare data solutions, you can unlock the value of your data and enable data-driven healthcare. You can use your data to help improve patient outcomes, enhance population health, optimize operational efficiency, and accelerate research and innovation. You can also leverage the power of AI and machine learning to build predictive models, identify risk factors, and personalize interventions.  Unlock the full potential of your healthcare data with the new features and capabilities now available in Microsoft Fabric’s healthcare data solutions. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to revolutionize your healthcare services; start your free trial now. Healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric Unlock the full potential of your healthcare data with the new features and capabilities now available Learn how Protect your data with the healthcare application templates in Microsoft Purview Healthcare organizations need to govern their data with assured confidence—guaranteeing robust security and strict compliance. Microsoft Purview is a unified data governance service that helps you discover, catalog, and classify data across your data estate. The healthcare application templates for Microsoft Purview accelerates our customers journey by providing healthcare-specific classifications, glossaries for healthcare standards, and guidelines on how to use them together with healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric. “Healthcare application templates in Microsoft Purview strengthens Microsoft’s commitment to support its clients in the healthcare industry. Here at Sentara we have been leveraging its glossaries and classifications to identify and tag our critical assets. We look forward to partnering with them on their journey continuous advancement in data governance.” —Abdul Ghani Mohammed, IT Manager (Data Governance & Data Quality), Sentara Health Identify sensitive healthcare data with healthcare classifications One of the key challenges of governing healthcare data is identifying and protecting sensitive information, such as protected health information (PHI) or personal identifiable information (PII). Microsoft Purview addresses this challenge by providing a set of healthcare-specific classifications based on HIPAA privacy rules. These classifications cover important healthcare classifications such as date of admission, date of discharge, and more. You can also create custom classifications using regular expressions or keywords, allowing you to automatically discover and classify sensitive data across different data sources like Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI. Understand your healthcare data with glossaries based on healthcare standards Healthcare data is often complex and diverse, coming from various sources and formats. To help you understand and manage your data, Microsoft Purview provides glossaries for healthcare standards such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM). These glossaries contain definitions and metadata for common healthcare terms and concepts, improving data quality, consistency, and interoperability across your data estate. Test your governance solution with healthcare sample data Sample data is essential for evaluating, testing, and validating the custom healthcare classifications and glossaries. By providing a realistic and relevant healthcare dataset, customers can validate if the Purview healthcare application templates meet their organization’s needs without bringing in their own production or sample data. Protect your data in healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric The healthcare application templates provided by Microsoft Purview facilitate the discovery, cataloging, and classification of data, thereby enhancing data quality, consistency, and interoperability across the healthcare data estate. Using these templates, you can enhance your healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric with data governance capabilities that help protect your data. You can use Microsoft Purview to scan your healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric data lake and catalog your data assets with classifications and glossaries. You can also use Microsoft Purview to monitor your data lineage, data quality, and data access across your healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric pipelines and applications. By integrating Microsoft Purview with healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric, you can gain a holistic and trusted view of your healthcare data and leverage it for better insights and outcomes. This unified approach not only strengthens security but also ensures strict compliance, enabling healthcare organizations to govern their data with confidence. Learn more about how to get access to the public preview, and learn how you can use healthcare application templates to protect your data in the healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is helping your organization shape a healthier future with data and AI We are excited to strengthen our data and AI investments through the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Our healthcare solutions are built on a foundation of trust and Microsoft’s responsible AI principles. Through these innovations, we are making it easier for our partners and customers to create connected experiences at every point of care, empower their healthcare workforce, and unlock the value from their data using data standards that are important to the healthcare industry. Learn more about all of our solutions in healthcare: Microsoft Cloud Solution Center.
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Power healthcare AI with unified and protected multi-modal healthcare data 

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric, a comprehensive solution that enables organizations to ingest, store, and analyze healthcare-related data from various sources and modalities into one unified data store for analytics and AI.

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How Azure Maps can help you unlock location intelligence in Power BI 

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Snowflake and Microsoft announce expansion of their partnership 

Announcing our expanded partnership with Snowflake, marking a significant step in our commitment to providing customers with a seamless data experience. This will enable bi-directional data access between Snowflake and Fabric, ensuring more efficient and flexible data management. 

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Unlock real-time insights with AI-powered analytics in Microsoft Fabric 

With Microsoft Fabric, we are simplifying and future-proofing your data estate with an ever-evolving, AI-powered data analytics platform. Fabric will keep up with the trends for you and seamlessly integrate each new capability so you can spend less time integrating and managing your data estate and more time unlocking value from your data.