Microsoft will make its new Cloud for Healthcare platform generally available next month, its first industry-specific cloud offering that incorporates its Azure FHIR service and FHIR converter along with a new Azure IoT connector for FHIR and a medical imaging server for DICOM.

It will also feature expanded Microsoft Teams capabilities with a Microsoft Teams EHR connector that will allow clinicians and patients to launch Teams virtual visits from within electronic medical records, the first of which will be within Epic's patient and provider portals.