Technology Record - Issue 22: Autumn 2021

49 solution that empowers our ecosystem of part- ners and leverages and extends our capabilities for personal care, patient insights and virtual heath. Through our partners, we can offer a more connected patient experience by lever- aging technologies like Azure Healthcare APIs, which allows anyone working with health data to bring disparate sets of protected health infor- mation together, and connect it end-to-end with tools for machine learning, analytics and artificial intelligence.” Industry Clouds can be complemented by the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. According to Hertogh, Microsoft wanted to create an industry solution that empowers its ecosystem of customers and partners to add depth to their sustainability progress through vertical and industry solutions. “This represents a whole new category of offering and is an evolution of what we’ve done with cloud to date,” he explains. “It’s a solution for all customers across all industries.” “It’s a solution for all customers across all industries”