Cognizant, Microsoft Team On Remote Patient Monitoring, Other Health Tools

Cognizant has announced a partnership with Microsoft to help deliver a health solution for remote patient monitoring, according to a press release Tuesday (March 1).

The solution is intended to boost the quality of medical care.

The solution will leverage components of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. It’s intended to combine remote patient monitoring and virtual health and use smartwatches, blood pressure monitors, and glucose meters to collect data for providers.

There will be built-in analytics that will let providers cross-reference health data to help get patient insights and identify the early signs of various chronic conditions.

The release notes that chronic deaths will account for 70% of global deaths by 2030, though advancements of digital integration are becoming known as a way to approach disease management and treatment.

“The bridging of technology and healthcare is creating new opportunities to improve how providers monitor the health of their patients and engage with them for time-sensitive interventions,” said Surya Gummadi, head of Cognizant Healthcare. “Utilizing data analytics, secure cloud technology and interoperability products, our collaboration with Microsoft offers a unique, scalable solution that aims to connect providers and patients, and enhances the quality, timeliness, and personalization of healthcare.”

Cognizant is also planning on more client offerings to help implement advanced healthcare tech, boost patient engagement and add more ways to do personalized care and patient monitoring remotely.

PYMNTS wrote recently that around 30% of data worldwide comes from the healthcare industry. According to RBC Capital Markets, that number is likely to hit 36% in the next three years, which is one of the world’s biggest banks.

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The growth sees Big Tech looking into how to get the information in line with discoveries and new tech for healthcare.

There was an analysis finding that there had been $7 billion had been invested in healthcare startups from the venture capital divisions of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft between January 2000 and June of last year.

Meanwhile, digital health startups raised almost $40 billion in funding during that period – an increase of 27% from 2020 funding totals.