Health Tech Today with our colleague Dr. Bill Crounse from WW Health team, is a monthly online series providing cutting-edge stories at the intersection of health and information technology. The show features - informative interviews with some of...

H1N1 continues to be a major global challenge, threatening to become a pandemic. As Microsoft, we are working closely with the ministries and the hospitals to address some of the challenges. Planning is very important to reduce the social and economic...

I had the opportunity to present at the Intel Health IT Leaders Event. The session included topics around Microsoft in Health, Operational Efficiency in Hospitals, Personal Medical Record Management and Healthvauilt. It is possible to watch the online...

There is an upcoming MS HUG webcast on September 24 th . Please find the details at the link below: http://www.mshug.org/events/events.aspx?cid=69167 Exponential data growth, increasing health costs, and changing consumer dynamic are causing...

Considering hosted collaboration and business productivity platform for your organization? You may want to check out the details about Business Productivity Online Suite. Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite is a set of messaging and collaboration...

One of the requirements for e-health systems is scalability. These systems allow millions of users to benefit and get access to functions. In the health industry, we see that it also includes execution of long-running transactions to automate business...

I am here in Redmond and there is huge excitement around Windows 7! There are so many reasons on why you will enjoy working on Windows 7. Dr Bill Crounse is summarizing it for us: Windows 7—A Healthy Choice. It is also worthwhile to consider embedding...

Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 helps health ISVs to collect, analyze, test and mitigate application compatibility against Windows XP machines to help prepare for migration to Windows 7. Several steps ISVs go through: - Create Data Collection...

I was at the SABIYAP event yesterday and had the opportunity to meet with leaders who are focusing on Health IT in Turkey. It was a great platform to exchange ideas, network. We had the opportunity to discuss security solutions. Having Unal Hulur at the...

Telemedicine is an area that can help us to improve health in our region. Given that child mortality, maternal mortality are critical issues in some countries; telemedicine has huge potential to extend medical care to the areas that does have access to...

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I wanted to inform you about an upcoming webcast: Microsoft in Health. We have Tim Smokoff, General Manager, Microsoft WW Health presenting on May 14 th . Please find the details and the registration link below: With chronic conditions...

It is time to travel to Manama, Bahrain. Looking for great discussions, brainstorming sessions with leaders around the world at HIMSS Middle East to improve healthcare through software innovation. Khadija Mustafa (Health and Social Services Director)...

Last month, I had an opportunity to meet with Yasin Keles, who is the chairman of SABIYAP. He and his team are passionate about making a difference in the way IT takes role in health industry. They have several activities coming up; you might be interested...

I am back from Turkey after a 3-week business trip . It was a great trip. Meanwhile, writing the CHF V2 summary kept me quite busy during the evenings and weekends. I enjoyed taking part in the development of the CHV V2 documents. Good news! We released...

Below are the links to take you to CHF/P content. Please note that we are working on the next version of CHF. If you would like to share your feedback on the current version of CHF, it will potentially give us an opportunity to incorporate your feedback...

This is one of the questions that often came up during my conversations with health IT professionals and I would like to share my perspectives on this topic. Let's start with a brief description of CHF: Connected Health Framework is a set...

Discover how Microsoft Knowledge Driven Health can help your organization reduce IT costs and increase productivity. Learn how Microsoft and its partners are developing technologies and solutions that will address your organization’s most critical IT...

We are excited to announce that Microsoft will be exhibiting at this year’s Arab Health Congress from January 26 – 29 th 2009 in Dubai. Below are the health solutions that we will be showcasing: · Business Intelligence in Health · Caregiver Collaboration...

On behalf of the Health and Social Services team at Microsoft Middle East and Africa HQ, I would like to welcome you to the Microsoft MEA Health IT Blog. This blog is to provide for those who are interested in Health IT strategies with a platform to exchange...