Frequently asked questions about Azure Healthcare APIs (preview)

These are some of the frequently asked questions for the Azure Healthcare APIs.

Azure Healthcare APIs: The basics

What is the Azure Healthcare APIs?

The Azure Healthcare APIs is a fully managed health data platform that enables the rapid exchange and persistence of Protected Health Information (PHI) and health data through interoperable open industry standards like Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) and Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM®).

What do the Azure Healthcare APIs enable you to do?

Azure Healthcare APIs enables you to:

  • Quickly connect disparate health data sources and formats such as structured, imaging, and device data and normalize it to be persisted in the cloud.

  • Transform and ingest data into FHIR. For example, you can transform health data from legacy formats, such as HL7v2 or CDA, or from high frequency IoT data in device proprietary formats to FHIR.

  • Connect your data stored in Healthcare APIs with services across the Azure ecosystem, like Synapse, and products across Microsoft, like Teams, to derive new insights through analytics and machine learning and to enable new workflows as well as connection to SMART on FHIR applications.

  • Manage advanced workloads with enterprise features that offer reliability, scalability, and security to ensure that your data is protected, meets privacy and compliance certifications required for the healthcare industry.

Can I migrate my existing production workload from Azure API for FHIR to Healthcare APIs?

No, unfortunately we do not offer migration capabilities at this time.

What is the pricing of Azure Healthcare APIs?

During the public preview phase, Azure Healthcare APIs is available for you to use at no charge

What regions are Healthcare APIs available?

Please refer to the Products by region page for the most current information.

What are the subscription quota limits for the Azure Healthcare APIs?

Please refer to Healthcare APIs service limits for the most current information.

What is the backup and recovery policy for the Azure Healthcare APIs?

Data for the managed service is automatically backed up every 12 hours, and the backups are kept for 7 days. Data can be restored by the support team. Customers can make a request to restore the data, or change the default data backup policy, through a support ticket.

More frequently asked questions

FAQs about Azure Healthcare APIs FHIR service

FAQs about Azure Healthcare APIs DICOM service

FAQs about Azure Healthcare APIs IoT connector

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