Dear HealthBlog readers. For the first time in more than a decade, I won’t be attending HIMSS this year.  I’ll certainly miss seeing so many of my friends and colleagues who make the annual trek to what is unquestionably one of the leading Health...

Having just returned from a business trip to the East Coast, I thought I would share a couple of experiences with my Surface RT device that both surprised and delighted me. You already know that I think the Surface Tablet will prove popular with clinicians...

Let’s face it. International business travel is grueling. Between jet lag, irregular meals, and meetings that often run from dawn well into the evening, it's not all that romantic. Business travel on Valentine’s Day is even less so. That’s why last evening...

It was a cloud-free, warm and very pleasant day yesterday in Wellington, New Zealand.  After three long days of continuous meetings with Microsoft customers, partners, public health officials, clinicians, healthcare executives and press in both Auckland...

If you had two months off work to do anything you wanted to do, what would it be? Spend more time with family? Travel to far off lands? Enroll in a class? Go on a diet and get in shape? Learn to cook? I suppose the possibilities are endless. Well, that...

Yesterday morning I arrived in Brisbane, Australia. After a 14 hour direct flight from LA, I was more than ready to get a little exercise before heading full speed into this year’s multi-city business tour in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. That will...

Hi all It is a real honor to cover for Bill whilst he is off on his well-earned sabbatical . The timing couldn’t be better – I leave for HIMSS tomorrow, and I am really looking forward to it. Despite working in and around healthcare for...