The tech chief at New York's biggest hospital system shares 3 reasons why Microsoft's cloud is beating out Amazon and Google to become the emerging favorite for healthcare systems
by JPMorgan, just over half said Microsoft's cloud unit, called Azure, would be the most critical for their tech needs going forward. Others favored cloud offerings from Google or Amazon. The CIOs were from a range of industries, not just healthcare.
Northwell uses Azure to help monitor data from its hospitals, and also to power some of Northwell's workplace apps and systems. The reasons all have to do with the fact that many of Microsoft's other services are compatible with its basic cloud infrastructure, he told Business Insider. First, Azure does a better job of communicating with the other systems in hospitals using application programming interfaces, or APIs. Lots of pieces of software rely on APIs to exchange healthcare data. For example, they can allow researchers to combine data from different hospitals in a provider's overall network to study it.
That's helpful for Northwell's contingency plans for power outages brought on by winter storms, as one example.How tech titans like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are taking on the the $3.6 trillion healthcare industryThird, Microsoft's directory services can let employees log in to many different systems, he said. At Northwell, an employee might sign onto the network in the morning, and then use the payroll system.
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