Why do I need FabricExpress™ if Microsoft provides HDS? 

Accelerate Your Healthcare ROI with FabricExpress™

September 10, 2025

From our CTO: Bill Slovin

As posted on LinkedIn Sept 16, 2025

That’s one of the first questions we hear. Microsoft’s Healthcare Data Solutions (HDS) provides strong foundational capabilities: it ingests healthcare data into Microsoft Fabric and enables use within your Data Warehouse. While this is a great starting point, organizations quickly find that there is still significant work required to build out datamarts and semantic models that support meaningful dashboards and analytics for business users. In addition, HDS currently supports a limited number of source systems—so extending it often requires custom engineering.

Microsoft continues to invest in HDS, and as a certified solutions partner, Brandon Systems ensures that FabricExpress™ for Healthcare continues to complement and extend those capabilities.

At Brandon Systems, we’ve taken the excellent foundation of HDS and added the critical features healthcare organizations need to accelerate insights and ROI:

  • Broader data support – Beyond clinical data, FabricExpress™ supports revenue cycle, satisfaction, HRIS, and other operational data sources.
  • Flexible ingestion pipelines – Not every source delivers data in a standardized way. FabricExpress™ adapts to changing data structures without starting from scratch.
  • Schema-resilient design – By using JSON as an intermediate layer, we minimize disruption from schema changes and keep analytics and AI models flowing.

The result? Faster time to dashboards, more comprehensive analytics, and a platform that evolves with your data ecosystem.

We’ve put together the following comparison chart to illustrate how FabricExpress™ extends HDS and helps healthcare organizations realize ROI sooner. If you’d like to discuss how this might apply to your environment, feel free to reach out to me directly.

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