Cognizant to collaborate with Microsoft on new virtual healthcare solution for remote patient monitoring and improved care
Cognizant today announced it is collaborating with Microsoft to deliver a new digital health solution to enhance remote patient monitoring for improved medical care.
The new solution leverages components of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is the first of several plans that combine remote patient monitoring and virtual health. They will utilise products like smart watches, blood pressure monitors, and glucose meters to collect and communicate patient health data to providers.
Built-in analytics allow providers to cross-reference historical health information to gain patient insights and potentially identify early warning signs of chronic conditions so preventative measures can be taken. Additionally, the solution’s remote capabilities enable telehealth visits, which continue to be a valuable option to mitigate barriers of care for patients with accessibility constraints, as well as implement time-sensitive interventions and improve personalized care.
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With chronic diseases expected to account for 70 per cent of global deaths by 2030, advancements in digital integration are quickly becoming recognized as an optimal approach to preventing, managing, and treating disease.*
As an early Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare partner, Cognizant has designed a solution that leverages Microsoft Azure services including FHIR, API Services and Teams integration to improve scalability and reliability.
This digital healthcare endeavour is backed by Cognizant’s dedicated Microsoft Business Group, bringing together Cognizant’s digital modernisation expertise with Microsoft’s focus on building Industry Clouds, to deliver a commercially available, comprehensive, healthcare solution.
This new offering is the first in a series of digital healthcare solutions from Cognizant as the company accelerates its client offerings aimed at implementing advanced healthcare technology to increase patient engagement, enhance personalized care, provide remote patient monitoring, and facilitate improved patient outcomes.
Future plans will build upon existing solution capabilities to help clients speed up implementation.
Surya Gummadi, head of Cognizant Healthcare said: “The bridging of technology and healthcare is creating new opportunities to improve how providers monitor the health of their patients and engage with them for time-sensitive interventions. Utilising data analytics, secure cloud technology and interoperability products, our collaboration with Microsoft offers a unique, scalable solution that aims to connect providers and patients, and enhances the quality, timeliness, and personalization of healthcare.”
Tom McGuinness, corporate vice president of Global Healthcare and Life Sciences at Microsoft said: “Cognizant’s new virtual healthcare solution utilizes differentiated capabilities, built on the secure and compliant Microsoft Cloud, that make it easy for people to collect and share health data using their own devices while ensuring that providers have the data and insights they need to diagnose and treat patients.
We look forward to combining our technologies and collective expertise to deliver additional solutions that offer high-quality healthcare and enable patient well-being.”
