By Dennis Schmuland, Chief Health Strategy Officer, U.S. Health & Life Sciences, Microsoft This is the second post in the four-part series focused on Windows 8. One million nurses. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, that’s how many new and replacement nurses are needed by 2016 to...

By Dennis Schmuland, Chief Health Strategy Officer, U.S. Health and Life Sciences With increasingly higher hurdles to clear in today’s healthcare environment, payers are seeking new strategies to meet their dual mandate of providing high quality services at a lower cost point without sacrificing...

By Dennis Schmuland, chief health strategy officer, U.S. Health and Life Sciences, Microsoft The rise of health insurance exchanges and the trend for employers to replace defined benefit plans with defined contribution plans is changing the nature of the relationship that health plans have with their...

Written by Dennis Schmuland, Worldwide Managing Director, Health Insurance Industry, Microsoft Health care reform dominated the agenda at this year’s American Health Insurance Plans ( AHIP ) conference. While hundreds of protesters called for a single payer system to replace private insurance...