Blogs

Two articles caught my attention this week amid of the flurry of news about jobs, the market and the economy. The first, Not retiring at 65: Physician goes from anti-EHR to pro-ACO , was about a 65 year old physician in Tucson who is not only delaying...

The view from my room high atop the Bella Sky Comwell Hotel pretty much symbolizes what my past two days have been like at the World of Health IT Conference in Copenhagen – whirlwind .  Well, actually the view is of a gigantic wind turbine that supplies...

Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of providing a keynote address at the Group Practice Improvement Network (GPIN) conference that was held in Seattle.  I say “pleasure” for two reasons.  Unlike most of the conferences I speak at these days...

Hector Rodriguez, Chief Technology Officer, US Healthcare at Microsoft, talks about the Cloud and Microsoft offerings geared toward healthcare, specifically Office 365 and how it can provide a global foundation for governance, risk and compliance, all...

A public-private partnership known as Research4Life that is sponsored in part by Microsoft, has been commended by the Global Business Coalition on Health and will be honored during that organization’s annual GBCHealth conference and awards dinner in New...

By Rob Rolf, Vice President Healthcare Compliance, CGI Federal It wasn’t until the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was enacted that everyone could truly understand the vast scope of healthcare waste, fraud and abuse. PPACA......

As someone whose entire career has been steeped in clinical medicine and technology, I’m a big fan of the American publication, Hospital’s and Health Networks .  I especially like reading the commentaries on the publication’s digital feed, H&HN...

Greg Bailey, Founder and CEO of SharkPro Software, speaks about Healthcare IT under pressure and operations and process improvement projects that hospitals are undertaking to meet everchanging and expanding regulations. Format: wmv Duration: 54:50

By Dennis Schmuland, chief health strategy officer, U.S. Health and Life Sciences, Microsoft When it comes to healthcare dollars, treating the chronically or seriously ill accounts for an estimated 84 percent of all U.S. healthcare spending . Knowing...

Business needs in the healthcare industry are changing due to HIPAA regulations, the Cloud, mobility, the consumerization of IT, and more. Experts from WPC walk through solutions to help both healthcare LOB entities and healthcare IT fill in their security...

This week I’m writing from Gothenburg, Sweden, where I am holding meetings with Microsoft customers and partners.  I am also doing a keynote address at Vitalis , a conference billed as the largest health IT event in Scandinavia.  This isn’t...

Whenever I travel outside the US, and even inside the US, I tend to get lots of questions about Microsoft’s platform for personal health records, HealthVault .  I say “platform” because HealthVault is much more than a site for storing your personal...

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After two weeks back in my Redmond office it is time again to hit the road.  I swear I hardly remember last week due to the mental fog of jetlag after a two and a half week sojourn in New Zealand and Australia.  Next week I’m heading in the...

If you think video games are just for kids, tweens and teens you’d be terribly wrong.  People of all ages are buying and playing video games these days.  In fact, a pilot program called the Exergamers Wellness Club developed by Microsoft, the...

How can diabetes be managed and debilitating complications avoided? What if young people were given digital tools to help manage their conditions? Format: mp4 Duration: 05:39

Located in Vatican City, this 130 year-old pediatric hospital has moved to the cloud for its email system improving caregiver productivity and reducing costs by 60 percent. Format: mp4 Duration: 06:32

Learn about a new twist on medical dictation using a simple, affordable, and cloud-based solution built on Windows speech recognition technology. Format: mp4 Duration: 06:26

By Andrea McGonigle, Managing Director, Microsoft Life Sciences The life sciences business environment and model is in a state of accelerating change. More drug approvals occurred in 2011 than any other year in the past decade. Yet, at the same...( read...

This weekend I’ve settled in Brisbane at one of my favorite hotels, the Stamford Plaza .  It has an ideal location with easy access to the riverfront, City Cat water taxi service, the botanical garden, restaurants, and local area attractions. ...

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By Andrea McGonigle, Managing Director, Microsoft Life Sciences We’ve witnessed a lot of great innovation within life sciences this year, and I couldn’t be more excited to announce the 2012 Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Awards . Each...