The open-source project contributes to the industrywide adoption of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. Interoperability in healthcare is a topic that weighs heavily on the minds of industry leaders everywhere. With Health Level Seven Internationals Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources specification rising up as a possible foundation for interoperability, adoption throughout the industry could prove to be a turning point.In a show of willingness to help push industry adoption of HL7 FHIR a draft standard that aims to improve data exchange among disparate technology systems Microsoft announced last month that its releasing FHIR Server for Azure. The new product empowers developers with open source software to move clinical health data into the Microsoft Cloud with the emerging standard HL7 FHIR, according to a blog post from Heather Jordan Cartwright, general manager at Microsoft Healthcare.FHIR Server for Azure provides support infrastructure for immediate provisioning in the cloud, including mapping to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), and the ability to enable role-based access controls (RBAC). Developers can save time when its required to integrate a FHIR server into an application or use it as a foundation to customize a unique FHIR service, writes Cartwright.She notes that the company has been working with both industry and government to deliver the open-source software, which is available on GitHub, and that it is built to empower developers as well as provide data security. With data standardized to FHIR, developers should be able to quickly manage and track workloads in the cloud, as well as normalize the data for machine learning, the company notes on its GitHub page.

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