> but I was here asking if you had to make any changes to keep abreast of changing regulations.
No, we haven't. Not yet.
> If Azure is somehow keeping track of all "changing regulations" for you (including business needs) and you've never had to worry about it, that's good to know. I would still be interested in any specific details if you're aware of it.
You do bring up a good point and I shouldn't have implied otherwise that it can handle everything for you. So yes, there is a ton of other stuff that isn't magically handled by you such as identifying PHI and stuff. That being said, they have a whole suite of analytical and machine learning tools that will help you do this.
BUT, they do have this healthcare platform they're building like this stuff https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/industry/healt... that I would imagine would provide a bit more coverage on those types of changes than something you're building yourself.
No problem at all. It's such a fascinating and cool field to build software in.
Someone else above had mentioned the complexity of medical coding and I don't know what you do or what you're working on but that's another really interesting part of the puzzle. And starts to get into why it's so hard for one system to communicate with each other in healthcare.
> but I was here asking if you had to make any changes to keep abreast of changing regulations.
No, we haven't. Not yet.
> If Azure is somehow keeping track of all "changing regulations" for you (including business needs) and you've never had to worry about it, that's good to know. I would still be interested in any specific details if you're aware of it.
I get your question know. So, when I was referring to Microsoft and HIPAA it was primarily around this side of things: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/compliance/offerings...
You do bring up a good point and I shouldn't have implied otherwise that it can handle everything for you. So yes, there is a ton of other stuff that isn't magically handled by you such as identifying PHI and stuff. That being said, they have a whole suite of analytical and machine learning tools that will help you do this.
But since you mentioned policy changes, https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/burden-reduct... this is big and will have wide-reaching consequences and things like the ability to export patient data isn't necessarily baked into Azure.
BUT, they do have this healthcare platform they're building like this stuff https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/industry/healt... that I would imagine would provide a bit more coverage on those types of changes than something you're building yourself.
Here's a deidentification service that can be integrated: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/healthcare-apis/deid...