Countries around the world are grappling with aging populations, increasing incidence of chronic diseases, and spiraling costs of healthcare.  It is essential that we develop more efficient, scalable and less costly systems of care and that we ...

In an emergency first responders know that every second counts.  They speak in terms of the “golden hour”, a period of time during which a seriously injured accident victim must be stabilized and transported to a hospital in order to have the best...

Ten years is a significant period of time in a person’s life. Ten years in the history of medicine is but a blink of the eye. As I think back on my ten year career working here at Microsoft, I’m sometimes amazed by how much progress has been made in a...

Next month I will have a unique opportunity to influence the design of future devices for clinical computing.  Our OEM (original equipment manufacturers) group at Microsoft has invited me to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. ...

Regular followers of this blog may recall that last year about this same time I reported on a big event we held in Brussels.  It was a gathering of customers, partners, developers, clinicians, and EU government officials who came together to discuss...

On December 1 we recognize World AIDS Day.  Although there is much to celebrate about the progress researchers have made in fighting HIV and AIDS, there is so much yet to do.  According to U.S. health officials, only 28 percent of the 1.2 million...