Microsoft 365 Windows with Azure Virtual Desktop boost productivity, security, and cost savings
Businesses all around the world are realizing the advantages of implementing Windows Cloud solutions. The main focus for many healthcare organizations is on how implementing these solutions may increase security, reduce IT expenses, and increase productivity in a balanced and scalable manner.
According to The New Technology: The Projected Total Economic Impact of 365 Windows and Azure Virtual Desktop, a 2025 study by Forrester Consulting that Microsoft commissioned to evaluate the advantages that businesses can obtain with Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop, a composite organization with 2,000 employees was expected to have a net present value (NPV) between USD 3.2 million and USD 7.4 million over three years, and a projected return on investment (ROI) ranging from 94% to 217%.
In comparison to their prior systems, the survey also found that workers and contractors who use 365 Windows and Azure Virtual Desktop save 6 to 12 minutes every day due to avoided outages and latency. This results in notable increases in productivity, enabling healthcare institutions to maximize employee effectiveness.
Discover how healthcare productivity and secure patient data with Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows Cloud solutions.
Getting patients the care and treatment they require is the most crucial thing, as Healthcare providers who deal with patients on a daily basis are aware. Since timely and accurate patient data might be essential to making the best healthcare decisions, data is essential to endeavor. Healthcare technology must be resilient and secure; only authorized staff should be able to access patient data and applications used in healthcare environments. Maintaining equipment up and operating as intended is crucial when patient care is involved.
Traditional virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions have long been used by hospitals and other healthcare facilities to protect patient, employee, and business data while giving staff access to vital information and tools across facilities and locations. Healthcare companies may lower expenses, increase access to digital tools and data securely, and manage their IT infrastructure more effectively with the use of VDI. Azure Virtual Desktop can assist organizations looking for VDI solutions in managing and maintaining their IT requirements.
What is Windows 365?
Windows 365 is a cloud-based solution that healthcare organizations can utilize to build Cloud PCs for their workers, contractors, or other users if they want simplification and to go beyond typical VDI. IT administrators may manage Cloud PCs alongside physical PCs in Microsoft Intune and quickly and simply install Cloud PCs with Windows 365. The productivity, security, and teamwork advantages of Microsoft 365 are available with Windows 365.
With the flexibility, scalability, and security of Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365, Microsoft’s Windows Cloud solutions offer virtualization options for healthcare providers, pharmaceutical businesses, life sciences organizations, and others as they look to the future.
Supporting healthcare and clinical workloads with Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Virtual Desktop gives organizations seeking virtualization solutions flexibility and control. It offers a safe and affordable solution for supporting remote desktops and experiences across a range of endpoints and from any location.
Azure Virtual Desktop gives businesses in the healthcare sector access to hosted PCs and clinical and productivity apps when they need them. IT administrators may design and oversee a unique desktop virtualization environment to suit their company’s requirements with Azure Virtual Desktop, which is controlled through the Microsoft Azure portal.
Electronic health records (EHR) are one of the main commercial systems used by healthcare providers. Epic is a leading EHR solution utilized by healthcare providers globally. Healthcare institutions interested in becoming early adopters of Epic Hyperdrive operating on Azure Virtual Desktop are being closely partnered with Microsoft and Epic. It have compiled the new best practices into a draft reference design and are prioritizing product development plan based on input from these early production pilots.
Beyond Azure Virtual Desktop on Linux devices, Microsoft partner Imprivata also announced support for Azure Virtual Desktop on Windows endpoints in Virtual Kiosk and Shared Kiosk modes in November 2024.
This expansion to Windows endpoints gives customers more options to configure their IT infrastructure to meet the needs of the healthcare workplace, as healthcare organizations frequently use Imprivata solutions to support “Tap and Go” badging capabilities with Azure Virtual Desktop virtual machines (VMs).
With several components that clients may build and apply to suit their IT needs, Azure Virtual Desktop was created with flexibility and security in mind. Other recent upgrades consist of:
- An important milestone for IT administrators overseeing shared virtual environments is the addition of Azure Virtual Desktop multi-session functionality to Microsoft Intune Remote Help’s single session support.
- With Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Local (previously known as Azure Stack HCI), organizations have more configuration choices. By offering session hosts closer to their location or expanding deployment options to on-premises equipment, Azure Local assists businesses in meeting performance or data localization requirements or supporting regions with inadequate connectivity to the Azure public cloud.
- Additional enhancements include support for Mobile Application Management (MAM), dynamic autoscaling, and session host configuration and updating.
To satisfy the demands of healthcare businesses, It keep coming up with new ideas and developing Azure Virtual Desktop.
Desktops in the cloud with Windows 365
Some healthcare institutions might be searching for desktop virtualization solutions that are simple to set up and maintain without requiring a lot of VDI knowledge or funding. The Microsoft software as a service (SaaS) product 365 Windows gives customers a recognizable, customized Windows experience on any device, from any location. It turns into a cloud-based dedicated PC for staff members, keeping their settings, data, and apps. The end user computing team can utilize Intune to deploy and administer Windows 365 Cloud PCs in addition to traditional PCs.
Cloud PCs are frequently utilized by healthcare organizations for a variety of purposes, such as call center staff, pharmacy and life science personnel, and healthcare management. 365 Windows is a fantastic choice for temporary contractors, seasonal employees, and part-time workers because it gives IT teams the freedom to swiftly deploy and scale up or down the virtual desktops as needed. Employees can access their desktop in the Microsoft Cloud from any device, around-the-clock, with 365 Windows Enterprise’s dedicated and customized Cloud PCs.
Newer versions of Windows 365 give healthcare businesses even more choices if they want to increase access and strengthen their organization’s resilience:
- Depending on how the Cloud PCs are set up, 365 Windows Frontline enables a single license to be shared by several users, one at a time, for businesses wishing to increase employee access to Cloud PCs. Three users will each have access to a customized Cloud PC in dedicated mode, which they can use during their workdays. A Frontline Cloud PC can be intermittently shared by a group of users in the shared mode, which is now widely accessible and offers a non-personalized experience.
- Some individuals or groups need more options for disaster recovery, data resilience, or backup. Microsoft just announced 365 Windows Disaster Recovery Plus in addition to the Windows 365 Cross-region Disaster Recovery add-on. In order to help guarantee a speedy and dependable recovery in a different area, this new add-on will offer short recovery times and fully reserved capacity, regardless of availability. For healthcare companies with extra business or legal constraints, such as pre-allocated capacity, restoration time objectives, and a need for greater geographic diversity, this can be very crucial.