Microsoft solutions for Healthcare
Protect patient data and clinical uptime, on shared devices and around the clock.
What this sector is dealing with
Healthcare runs on shared devices, shift workers, and systems that cannot go offline. Clinicians sign in and out of the same workstation all day, medical devices sit on the same network as email, and patient data moves between systems that were never designed to talk to each other securely.
We use the Microsoft stack to protect patient information without adding friction to clinical work: fast authentication for frontline staff, devices that stay compliant, data classified wherever it lands, and detection that covers both the clinical network and the tenant.
The problems we get called in for
Shared and shift-based devices
Ward workstations and shared tablets need fast, secure sign-in that does not cost clinicians minutes per shift.
Patient data confidentiality
Patient records leak through the ordinary channels: email, file shares, and personal devices, not through exotic attacks.
Clinical systems cannot pause
Security and modernisation have to be delivered around care, in stages, with rollback thought through.
Ransomware exposure
Healthcare is a priority target, and the impact of downtime is measured in care delivery, not revenue.
What Microsoft brings to healthcare
The products that genuinely apply to this sector, and what each one is actually for here. Much of this sits inside licensing you may already hold.
Microsoft Entra ID
Conditional Access with phishing resistant methods for clinical access, and shared device sign-in patterns so a nurse can get to the record in seconds rather than fighting a password. Access reviews keep leavers and rotating staff out of systems they no longer need.
Microsoft Intune
Shared device mode for ward tablets and clinical handhelds, compliance policy gating access to patient data, and app protection for the personal phones clinicians use for Teams. Autopilot rebuilds a device without a technician walking to the ward.
Microsoft Purview
Patient identifiers get detected and labelled automatically, with DLP stopping records being emailed or copied out. Audit and eDiscovery give you the record of who touched what when a request or an incident lands.
Microsoft Defender XDR
Defender for Endpoint on clinical workstations and Defender for Office 365 against the phishing that leads to ransomware, with correlated signals so an incident is one investigation instead of four consoles.
Microsoft Teams
Secure clinical collaboration and virtual appointments, governed so that a channel created for a case does not become an ungoverned store of patient information.
Microsoft Sentinel
Detection across the tenant and clinical estate, with retention long enough to satisfy investigation and reporting obligations after the fact.
Typical engagements in this sector
The projects we are most often brought in to deliver for healthcare, from full implementations to targeted uplifts.
Intune endpoint security rollout
Shared device and one-to-one configuration across ward workstations, clinical handhelds, and tablets, delivered around clinical hours.
Microsoft 365 migration and consolidation
Mailboxes, files, and Teams moved onto one governed estate, staged so no clinical service is interrupted.
Purview patient data governance
Automatic classification of patient identifiers, DLP on the ordinary leak paths, and the audit trail for requests and incidents.
Ransomware readiness with Defender XDR
Identity hardening, privilege reduction, and detection tuned to the paths ransomware actually takes into a healthcare estate.
Frameworks that shape the work
These are the frameworks and regulations we most often design against in healthcare. We map Microsoft controls to the framework you are actually held to, and build the evidence trail as we go rather than reconstructing it the week before an audit.
HIPAA
Safeguards for protected health information, covering access control, audit trails, and how you handle a breach.
GDPR and UK GDPR
Lawful handling of personal data, with real duties around retention, subject access, and breach notification timelines.
NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit
The annual self-assessment NHS organisations and their suppliers complete against national data security standards.
ISO 27001
The information security management standard most enterprise buyers and auditors ask for by name. It wants a system, not a set of tools.
NIST CSF
A framework for organising security around identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover. Useful as the spine that other frameworks hang off.
Cyber Essentials Plus
A UK baseline that is independently tested, and increasingly a condition of winning public sector and enterprise contracts.
Where to go next
The solutions we most often deliver for this sector.
Microsoft 365 & Intune
Devices enrolled, compliant, and provisioned without a technician in the room.
Explore Microsoft 365 & IntuneDefender XDR
Correlated protection across identity, endpoint, email, and cloud apps in one investigation.
Explore Defender XDRMicrosoft Purview
Classify, label, and protect data where it lives, with DLP and insider risk behind it.
Explore Microsoft PurviewZero Trust
Verify explicitly, grant least privilege, and assume breach, applied to the estate you actually run.
Explore Zero TrustWe work across sectors
Working in healthcare? Let us look at your estate.
Book a discovery call and we will walk through what you already own, what is switched on, and where the gaps are that matter in your sector.