Truveta, a data platform company owned and governed by healthcare providers, will run on Azure and will take an investment from Microsoft. Truveta will also become a Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare partner.

Truveta claims its platform will represent tens of millions of patients and thousands of care facilities across 40 states in the US. It holds billions of de-identified datapoints, including medical records, images and genomics, with data refreshed daily. It is a "tax paying entity" that can be licensed "for ethical medical research, not to be used to target advertising to patients or physicians."

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• Microsoft acquires Nuance, bolstering healthcare cloud position
• Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, a new industry-focused solution, launches
• Microsoft introduces Azure Healthcare APIs for Cloud for Healthcare
• Azure for healthcare: Opportunities abound in the cloud

Current Truveta members accounts for at least 15 percent of US healthcare system's patient care. The company took a Series A funding round from its members worth $95 million, according to a July 2021 announcement.