MINICASE STUDY Azure Plays Key Role in Saa

MINI-CASE STUDY Azure Plays Key Role in Saa. S Platform Along with Improved Outcomes for Transitional Care “Azure provides a robust, security-centric, scalable platform. Our team focuses health care expertise in software and HIPAA/HITECH compliance for improved patient and provider outcomes, instead of infrastructure. ” – Stewart Whaley, J. D. , Chief Privacy Officer, Phyzit, Inc. MICROSOFT AZURE ISV: Phyzit WEB SITE: www. Phyzit. com LOCATION: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA ORG SIZE: 8 MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE: Phyzit, founded in 2013, is a Little Rockbased company that is innovating improvements in the Transitional Care Management (TCM) process. Phyzit enables health care providers to offer better health outcomes through reduced hospital readmissions by applying TCM. Phyzit tracks the metrics of TCM so providers can concentrate on patients. Read about other Microsoft Azure ISVs § SITUATION More than $26 billion is spent annually on unnecessary hospital readmissions. Transitional Care Management is key in providing better health outcomes for patients, but managing TCM doesn’t match normal clinic workflow. Phyzit wanted to design a TCM solution, but it needed a secure platform that could reliably handle sensitive information safely while still complying with HIPAA standards. § SOLUTION Phyzit worked with experts from the Microsoft Azure Cloud DX team to build a scalable, redundant, and robust solution leveraging multiple Paa. S and Iaa. S features, including Azure Virtual Machines, Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage, Load Balancer and Transparent Data Encryption. Combining health care expertise and the Azure toolset allows Phyzit TCM to provide a HIPAAconformant Saa. S solution that is secure (encrypted at-rest and intransit), reliable, and available across the United States. § BENEFITS Azure SQL’s Transparent Data Encryption enables at-rest encryption for database records on the fly, with minimal overhead. Azure’s geo-replication and geo-redundancy provide multiple points for disaster recovery, business continuity, and data integrity.