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— Peter Jones , Microsoft ’ s Industry Lead in Healthcare for Canada feasible . Machine learning and artificial intelligence are most practical in the cloud . Aggregations of software as a service provider , like an enterprise app store , allow organizations to discover , trial and deploy new applications with a minimum of risk and hassle . There is potential of the cloud to defragment all the data silos that frustrate holistic health information management .

Making cloud computing trustworthy is a key priority . Part of that involves making sure it is secure , and Microsoft invests over a billion dollars annually to that end . Just as important though is making sure that the cloud can be used compliantly , so Microsoft has invested in many industry certifications like HIPAA through a Business Associates Agreement , HITECH , and FedRAMP . Keeping information private , being transparent about datacentre operations , and allowing users the controls to manage their own data round out the trust story .

The seemingly limitless capacity of the cloud is advantageous for initiatives such as genomic sequencing , a field

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