HealthBlog readers may recall reading about an event I facilitated in Brussels just before Christmas last year.  More than 90 customers, partners, developers, clinicians, and government officials gathered in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss “Embracing...

What do you do when your aging voicemail system is at the end of its life and every vendor you talk to wants six figures or more to outfit your organization with a replacement?  That was the dilemma facing Baycrest of Ontario, Canada – that is until...

In my role at Microsoft, I spend a lot of time focusing on clinicians, clinics and hospitals and how information technology is being used to transform health and healthcare delivery around the world.  I go to a lot of industry conferences and meet...

In the latest on-line edition of Hospital and Health Networks Daily there is an ironic juxtaposition of commentaries.  In one of those commentaries , author and futurist David Ellis ponders the day, perhaps not all that many years away, when machines...

These days we hear a lot about “Connected” Health. At Microsoft, we are focused on connecting people, processes, and information using solutions that advance collaboration and help clinicians and other health workers make insightful decisions.  We...