- The collaboration aims to improve North American healthcare by
integrating Microsoft Azure and its AI with WELL's digital health
platform to improve clinical outcomes, optimize costs, and ensure
top-tier data privacy and security.
- The integration is expected to streamline WELL's cloud and
infrastructure environments and position it to improve its ability
to scale and offer leading edge solutions across all of its
business units, with an emphasis on Canada.
VANCOUVER, BC, April 30,
2024 /PRNewswire/ - WELL Health Technologies Corp.
(TSX: WELL) (OTCQX: WHTCF) ("WELL" or "the
Company"), a company focused on positively impacting health
outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare providers
and their patients globally, is pleased to announce it is
collaborating with Microsoft to accelerate healthcare's digital
transformation. This five-year agreement is set to accelerate the
digital transformation of healthcare delivery across North America and beyond, integrating
Microsoft Cloud and AI capabilities with WELL's comprehensive
digital health platform to innovate and enhance the healthcare
experience for both providers and patients. A key focus will
be to substantially elevate WELL's scalability and flexibility as
part of its offerings, especially as its organic growth accelerates
and it aims to help large enterprise clients such as those in
public sector.
Amir Javidan, COO who leads
WELL's platform solutions group, commented: "Our collaboration with
Microsoft will enable us to accelerate our growth and innovation,
vastly improve our scalability, reduce complexity and improve our
cost profile for our cloud offerings over the long term.
Microsoft will provide specialized support and services that will
allow us to unify our infrastructure environments to a more
homogeneous and advanced posture, bringing our digital health
platform to new heights. We are honored to partner with Microsoft,
and eagerly anticipate the transformative impact our collaboration
will have on healthcare delivery."
"WELL's integration with Microsoft Azure, will
streamline operational efficiency and also bring advancements in
patient care through our Azure AI platform," said Allison West Hughes, Corporate Vice President,
digital acquisition at Microsoft. "WELL shares our commitment to
empowering healthcare practitioners with
innovative solutions that redefine cost management, enhance data
security, and catalyze service innovation."
Focus areas of the collaboration include:
Modernizing and Enhancing Scalability: The collaboration
will focus significant time and resources to ensure that WELL's
cloud infrastructure is unified, modernized and positioned for
significant growth and scale. To do this, WELL will integrate Azure
Database for MySQL, Azure SQL Managed Instances and Azure
Databricks. This is very important at a time where WELL's organic
growth is accelerating, and it has embarked on significant large
enterprise opportunities including public sector.
Cost Optimization in Healthcare: This integration focuses
on enhancing operational efficiencies. By doing so, it aims to
minimize expenses while simultaneously increasing the quality and
accessibility of care.
Data Privacy and Security Assurance: The collaboration is
committed to extend WELL's stringent data protection measures. This
ensures the integrity and confidentiality of patient information
through advanced security protocols.
Leading Innovative Healthcare Solutions: This
collaboration establishes Microsoft as a go-to partner for WELL
Health as it continues to infuse leading generative AI technologies
into its various digital health solutions. WELL is integrating
Azure OpenAI Service to drive transformative change in how care is
delivered, enabling tremendous efficiencies for providers and
improving patient experiences.
Stu Coombes, Vice President of
Technology Services at WELL, commented: "By taking advantage of the
robust foundation of Microsoft Azure and Azure OpenAI Service, WELL
is not only optimizing cloud hosting but also fortifying business
continuity, empowering the integration of AI-driven healthcare
technologies, and capitalizing on economies of scale. The
technology teams who are working behind the scenes to drive this
transformation are highly motivated by the collaboration with
Microsoft and the associated support this collaboration brings.
This signifies WELL's unwavering commitment to advancing
patient care, driving operational excellence, and shaping the
future of healthcare delivery."
Through this collaboration, WELL is working towards a new era of
healthcare solutions that are proactive, personalized, and secure,
underscoring a deep commitment to improving health outcomes and the
patient experience globally.
WELL HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
Per: "Hamed Shahbazi"
Hamed Shahbazi
Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director
About WELL Health Technologies
Corp.
WELL's mission is to tech-enable healthcare providers. We do
this by developing the best technologies, services, and support
available, which ensures healthcare providers are empowered to
positively impact patient outcomes. WELL's comprehensive healthcare
and digital platform includes extensive front and back-office
management software applications that help physicians run and
secure their practices. WELL's solutions enable more than 34,000
healthcare providers between the US and Canada and power the largest owned and
operated healthcare ecosystem in Canada with more than 165 clinics supporting
primary care, specialized care, and diagnostic services. In
the United States WELL's solutions
are focused on specialized markets such as the gastrointestinal
market, women's health, primary care, and mental health. WELL is
publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol
"WELL" and on the OTC Exchange under the symbol "WHTCF". To learn
more about WELL, please visit: www.well.company.
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