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March 19, 2026
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Delivering more cost-efficient healthcare with Epic on Azure 

Electronic health records (EHR) are a vital tool for enhancing patient care. But safeguarding this confidential information with legacy, on-premises infrastructure increases costs. For healthcare leaders balancing tight budgets with resilience, expensive hardware refresh cycles and the growing risk of security breaches make inaction a risky, costly choice. Organizations across the healthcare industry are already

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Addressing Audit Log Storage for U.S. Federal Government Customers 

At Microsoft, we offer a rich set of robust security and compliance capabilities in Office 365 and Microsoft 365. One of these is the ability to better understand account activity – like documents accessed, and mailboxes accessed – through audit logs to assess if, how, when, and to what extent a security incident has occurred. To be clear, audit logs don’t prevent attacks, but can be useful in retroactively examining how they occurred when an attacker is impersonating a user.

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How financial advisors can build better client relationships on social media 

Financial advisors know all about the value of developing relationships with prospects and clients. Whether you’re providing banking services, investment vehicles, or insurance products, you know that the number one way to get business is through personal connections and referrals. You rely on word of mouth and warm introductions to help you win people’s trust.

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A new age in healthcare: How information technology can produce better patient outcomes and boost health worker motivation 

Clifford Goldsmith | B.Sc., MBBCh (MD), US Chief Medical Officer, Microsoft   I am proud to count myself among the cadre of physicians who incorporate healthcare informatics in their medical practice. We may have downsized our clinical practices, but we remain as strongly committed to the principles of the Hippocratic Oath as we were when we took the oath in medical school.

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2021 Outlook: the Future of Life Sciences Customer Experiences 

Research from a large-scale survey of more than 1,000 senior pharma professionals highlights the divide between digitally adept companies and those that have been slow to adopt technologies. In this blog, we look at how the customer experience is changing due to COVID-19 for life sciences organizations.  Historically, pharma has lagged behind other industries in adopting digital solutions.

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Empowering business leaders to make good decisions with data and analytics 

As technology becomes more accessible to non-technicians, business leaders are taking more control over the tools and processes that affect their functional area. Whatever the business outcomes they’re striving for, these leaders can make use of progressive customer-facing applications and good data to create actionable insights that support their needs.

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Manufacturing becomes more inclusive as AI enables hiring of workers with disabilities 

In a webinar entitled “The Art of Possible: Manufacturing Priorities that Will Define 2021,” Çağlayan Arkan, Microsoft’s VP of manufacturing industry shared: “From extreme disruption comes extreme transformation.”  His point is well taken. In the aftermath of the pandemic, supply chain has raced to the top of the news and manufacturing is centerstage.

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Commitment to compliance in pharma and life sciences 

Over a year has gone by since the beginning of the global pandemic, and it’s clear that the pharmaceutical industry and COVID-19 vaccines are at the center of everyone’s attention. Calls for quick and rigorous development of a COVID-19 vaccine have given way to the equally important demand for rapid distribution.

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Changing the way the world views Down syndrome 

When I was a junior at Greensburg Central High School in Western Pennsylvania, I volunteered for the Special Olympics. Roger, the athlete I was partnered with, made such an impression on me because of his complete and utter joy in participating in various sports events.