I am in the USA at present and the news is full of Healthcare! The latest breaking news is the positive vote on the Healthcare Bill here. It passed 219 (for) to 212 (against) votes – pretty tight I think. At $900bn US it is going to be a very interesting...

When I joined Microsoft in this role 3 years ago as of last month I was pretty much an AWT/Swing UI developer. I also did a lot with Delphi UI development with the version 7 RAD environment – starting with the TurboVision UI of Turbo Pascal (showing my...

For those that have not seen this; the new version of OfficeDoctor is about to be released. The notice is on the MSCUI web site here . I am really excited by this especially with the way in which people are asking for it. I am looking forward to writing...

I have been working for Microsoft for just over 3 years now and in that time have become deeply involved in sales dealing with BizTalk and SQL Server (as well as Office, Dynamics, Desktop, Server, Hyper-V, System Centre... – go figure). In doing so I...

I talk to a lot of IT people and clinicians in my travels and it would probably come as no surprise to anyone in the field of Health IT that clinical people and IT people do not regularly see eye-to-eye. What surprises me is the (often) level of underground...

I did an experiment in social media at HIMSS USA this year. It didn’t work out as I thought it would. I had planned to ‘cast and blog the entire time (I even tried to twitter) but I found that one key thing you need is an internet connection. You also...

<violins>I am sitting here with my grey matter dribbling out of my ears. Not a pretty mental picture I’ll grant you but relatively accurate in presentation. The thing I think we in these positions do not pay sufficient homage to is the effect that...

Say what you will but MS Surface is cool and HIT is getting cooler with the surface interface influence. Not only does it give people a more human interaction method – reminiscent of our childhood (grab, push, throw) but it gives us a new way to interact...

I just realised that I did not reset my computer calendar to USA time. This has led to the issue of my posts for the 28th Feb 2010 clocking over to 1 March 2010 while sitting in the rooms here at HIMSS USA! btw: here is a gloStream screen cut.

“gloStream” is an innovative company that demonstrated an extensible solution framework for clinical content generation and management. Yaw Kwakye , Chief Software Architect, gloStream, Nasik, Maharestra, India, presented a succinct presentation on the...

OfficeDoctor has been revamped and is now the Clinical Documentation Solution Accelerator (CDSA)! This is big news for me as I am a firm believer in the use of commoditized software in healthcare and Office is the epitome of this capability. I am watching...