Empowering care teams with new tools in Microsoft 365

Healthcare professionals play a critical role in supporting the health, safety, and wellness of people around the world. Working in a complex care environment—made even more complex by events such as the spread of COVID-19—doctors, nurses, and other healthcare staff need access to tools that enable collaborative workflows to deliver high-quality patient care. Both patients and clinicians need greater flexibility and convenience when it comes to being able to connect with each other across locations.

That’s why, today, we are announcing new capabilities coming soon to Microsoft office setup 365 that empower care teams to securely collaborate and communicate, helping clinicians and administrators perform their jobs more effectively.

Scheduled virtual visits for providers and patients

In-person doctor visits can be challenging, especially for patients with mobility issues, a compromised immune system, or living in areas with a shortage of clinicians or healthcare facilities. Video Conferencing provides a way for clinicians to provide high-quality, personalized, and affordable consultations. Using the complete meetings platform in office.com/setup Teams, combined with the new Bookings app in Teams, providers will be able to schedule, manage, and conduct virtual visits with patients, such as a surgery follow-up.

Once a visit is scheduled within Teams, the patient receives a customized email with appointment details and a link where they can join the virtual appointment from their web browser or Teams mobile app. “It’s very easy to set up virtual appointments. I can schedule an appointment. An email goes out to the parent with the appointment date and time,” says Judith Vincent, Specialist Nurse, Epilepsy Clinic at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS foundation trust. The Bookings app will be available in Teams in the coming weeks.

In addition, with the Microsoft office Setup Graph API, organizations can incorporate office.com/setup Teams meeting into their unique healthcare workflows. The API supports the integration of both scheduling and meeting-join links into existing healthcare applications like electronic health records systems. If your organization is interested in getting early access to the Bookings app in Microsoft Teams to schedule, manage, and conduct virtual visits, please fill out this form.