Folks, a great article on how Xbox is being used in Cardiac Modelling that appeared in Time Magazine this month. The article can be found here: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1925332,00.html This is not the first time we have seen the...

As many of you would know, adverse events (medical errors) are reported to be anywhere between 4.5% and 20% of people admitted into our health system (depending on whose research you are reading). Two of the major causes of these adverse events are medical...

Folks here is a great example of HealthVault being used to genuinely deliver strategies to reduce childhood obesity by using technology incentives to improve diet and physical activity. The project was driven by the Columbus Research Foundation, who were...

Telstra current Bedside Computing solution (developed with Wandsworth ) is a fantastic example of industrial design in Healthcare. The bedside computing solution has been customised to ‘stand out’ as a clinical tool rather than simply a PC at the bedside...

This week, the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare released their latest (2007-08) report on pretty much everything you want to know about Australian hospitals. You can access the report at the following link: http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications...

Folks, below is a link to a video that overviews a solution built by one of our Health Partners, nSynergy . nSynergy have built a Windows Mobile based solution to track and prompt nurse training while they are in the field gaining practical experience...

Depending on the research you read, between 40% and 60% of consumers use the internet to find information on health. As I am sure you have experienced, most search engines overloaded you with information (the ‘10 blue links per page’ syndrome) and you...

Congratulations to the team at iCare for winning both Company of the Year and Implementation of the Year for a facility under 150 beds at the Aged Care Industry IT Awards. Great to see Microsoft partners retaining such prominence in the Industry.

Folks, there is a great new video on the HealthVault website that shows how leading healthcare organisations (in this case the Mayo Clinic) are leveraging the HealthVault Platform. Health providers are leveraging the platform to improve their engagement...

Folks, by now most of you will have read through the Federal Health Budget, some of you all 764 pages! For those of you who have not, here is the link . I wanted to provide a perspective from inside Microsoft where we remain optimistic about the growth...

Folks, please excuse the double posts for those of you who would have received this from other DL’s, but yesterday the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission released a supplementary paper to their Interim Report. The paper focuses on Electronic...

Folks, a good overview of the role we are taking in assisting with the Swine Flue containment efforts. http://www.king5.com/video/index.html?nvid=355866

Folks, great to see Microsoft sponsored research extend medical applications of smart phones. Convergence of devices like this will be yet another step towards extending diagnostic services outside of the traditional acute care sector. You can read the...

Folks, version 2 of the Connected Health Framework was released this week. Please excuse the cut and paste nature of this blog, but some of the quotes from the press release are fantastic. “Our healthcare clients expect the solutions we deliver to align...

Folks, most of you will have been keeping abreast of the the press coverage in Victoria around the falsification of hospital data, where hospitals have been creating ‘ghost wards’ and manipulating waiting lists, to secure performance bonuses. Transparency...

Folks, this is a fantastic interview with Dr Bill Crounse (our WW Director for Health) on Fox News. The interview runs for 9 minutes (uninterrupted) which is a good indication of the media interest Microsoft has generated around our investments in Health...

eRx, the Health Reform initiative underwritten by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and lead by Fred Health (one of our key Health Partners who specialise in pharmacy systems) announced that Best Practice, who produce one of the countries fastest growing...

Folks, excuse the double posts for those of you who may have received this through other news feeds. The NH&HRC ( www.nhhrc.org.au ) have just released their interim report, ‘a Healthier Future for all Australians’, which is their follow-up report...

Folks, our team in the UK have just released the new version of the Common User Interface. The latest release includes: Publication of new and updated Design Guidance : New Displaying Adverse Drug Reaction guidance Updated Medication Line guidance Updated...

Folks, a local service called My Health Portfolio went live with a soft launch to consumers with diabetes to offer them more integrated support in managing their diabetic data and management. The service allows diabetics to upload their glucose readings...

Folks, Telstra announced today the launch of their online Health service on BigPond. Telstra have built this capability into BigPond in collaboration with virtualmedicalcentre.com and now provide access to online information, patient self help tools,...

The Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA) have announced that their Online Care service (Telemedicine service) developed with the support of Blue Cross Blue Shield, American Well and our HealthVault team has gone live. The announcement has been picked...

Folks, Dr Bill Crounse our lead MD, will be in Australia for a series of customer meetings in February. Many of these meetings will focus specifically on the use of our collaboration tools in improving communication in Healthcare. We are using this opportunity...

Folks, our HealthVault team in the US produce a very interesting newsletter that is worth subscribing to if you do not do so already. The newsletter keeps you abreast of the companies and organisations that are leveraging the HealthVault platform, as...

Folks, the new version of the Microsoft Common User Interface has just been released with much richer functionality including SNOMET CT Web Services. The CUI is one of the most exquisite advances in Health Informatics I have seen. This version trumps...