Initiatives
Better care and better outcomes for more people. It’s what we’re all striving for in the health industry. It’s a shared goal, and Microsoft works every day with health organizations, communities, and partners around the world to help realize it. We assist by bringing people, processes, and information together to support more informed decisions and greater collaboration. Our solutions – some designed specifically for health and others well-known to people everywhere – are intuitive and powerful, delivering excellent value. They work well with customers’ current systems and approaches, and they also provide new capabilities to help people advance research, management, and care. At Microsoft, we support everyone’s efforts to move health forward, by delivering health solutions for the way people aspire to work and live.
Microsoft believes that information and communication technologies (ICT) have the potential to change the face of healthcare and our vision is to improve health around the world through software innovation. To help achieve this vision, we work with our partners to deliver health solutions that help connect information, support decisions, and advance collaboration.
We believe there are three key initiatives where Microsoft and our partners can use ICT to deliver health solutions that meet the needs of our customers:
- Improving Health and Wellness – solutions that help health organizations efficiently and proactively improve personal and public health and wellness and contain costs related to chronic conditions.
- Improving Organizational Efficiency – solutions that help health organizations improve efficiency to save time and money, increase the quality of their care and services, and improve operational performance.
- Optimizing your Health ICT Infrastructure – infrastructure software and services that help health organizations create an efficient, connected infrastructure, improve service levels for users, and increase security and compliance.