The Healthcare IT Blog

Just today we announced the expansion of HealthVault in China, specifically in the Jiangsu province of Wuxi . This is definitely a big step in the international expansion of HealthVault outside of the United States and joins the other international deployments...

Well, this is at least a partial excuse for my absence from this blog :-) Today we announce the acquisition of Sentillion, Inc demonstrating again Microsoft’s level of commitment to the healthcare industry. Many of you reading this are familiar with Sentillion...

The HealthVault Solution Conference that we did last year has evolved into a broader event that includes more of the solutions that Microsoft has to offer in Health. The Connected Health Conference will be held on June 10-12 in Bellevue, WA and we’re...

Recently we worked with Gartner Group on a webcast outlining the issues that healthcare provider organizations face when it comes to data integration and how solutions such as Amalga UIS 2009 can help address these issues and provide organizations with...

Ok, I have been to a few HIMSS with Microsoft now, but I must say that this one, by all means exceeded my expectations. We had two days of in-depth training with our field before the show and that was great. All the content was spot on (at least from...

We just issued a press release outlining some of the cool things that you’ll see at HIMSS 2009 from Microsoft. At HiMSS09, the annual conference and exhibition for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Microsoft Corp. will...

Like the past 8, this year I will be at 2009 HIMSS Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition . I will be there starting tomorrow (Friday 4/3) for internal Microsoft training. As you can imagine this is a good opportunity to get all the Microsoft people...

Today we announced Virtua Health as our 12th Amalga, the Unified Intelligence System (UIS) customer. Virtua Health is a pioneer in healthcare quality and many other areas. We are jazzed to have them part of our client base and look forward a number of...

Peter Neupert, Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Health Solutions Group and my grand-grand-boss, recently completed a testimony before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP). Peter testified along with: Jack Cochran...

There is a recent post on the WSJ Health Blog with Steve, my grand-boss (my boss’ boss, can I say that?), as the guest of honor, shedding some light on the overall Microsoft and HSG plans in Healthcare. Have a look at the video or click on the link for...

This is an example of how we’re using Amalga at SJHS to bridge outpatient and inpatient. In this particular case the integration is done via ASTM CCR documents sent by Allscripts to Amalga. SJHS will use the Microsoft Amalga platform to integrate Allscripts...

Today we are announcing two new great additions to the growing Amalga customer base: University of Washington and Seattle’s Children Hospital ! University of Washington will focus on clinical and translational research by basically providing researches...

While looking at my past posts on the topic, I realized I never gave out the link to the download for the HL7 Schema Generation Tools that I discussed waaaaay back . Hopefully the most entrepreneurial readers will have found it, for the rest of us, here...

Today we announced a new customer added to the growing list of organization that are adopting Amalga to gather better insight on their care delivery, operations and performance. El Camino Hospital today announced that it has selected Microsoft Amalga...

The team in the UK is doing a great job with the Microsoft Common User Interface (MSCUI). Head over to http://www.mscui.net to check for the new version that was just posted. New in this release: Publication of new and updated Design Guidance : New Micro...

Yes, I know, it’s been a while since I posted and I know that I have probably lost a lot of readers. Fare enough! I hope to start posting more regularly and bring you more news from the Amalga family of products, the Health Solutions Group and Microsoft...

Today we are announcing Microsoft Amalga, the new family of Health Enterprise Systems. You can read the full press release on the microsoft.com web site. The products included in the Amalga family are: Microsoft Amalga . The new version of the product...

As promised the GOLD version of the IHE XDS.b Reference Implementation is now posted on CodePlex [ direct link ]

It is official, after a week of testing in Chicago at the IHE Connectathon , the Microsoft IHE XDS.b Reference Implementation has passed and received the GREEN LIGHT from the Connectathon staff: You can expect the final drop of the code to be posted to...

It’s been about a month now since we released HealthVault and we heard a lot of great feedback from the industry. Pretty much everyone in Health has an opinion on HealthVault :-) I also saw some interesting debate regarding how HealthVault addresses...

I have seen some posts about the BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 v2.0 not supporting Windows Server 2003 SP2. That seemed very odd to me so I asked the product teams and in fact there was a typo in the Known Issues where something from a previous release...

If you're in Farmington, CT on November 5th, I strongly suggest you attend the (first?): Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Industry Council Healthcare 2.0 Perspectives & Industry Impact - Blogs, Wikis, podcasts, social networking, mashups, and RSS...

After a long gestation period we have finally published the HL7 v3 and BizTalk whitepaper: Getting Started with HL7 v3 and BizTalk Server 2006 This paper provides developers with an overview of HL7 version 3 Messaging (HL7 v3) concepts, how to build HL7...

Last night we made another announcement that further demonstrates Microsoft's commitment to the Health industry worldwide. Microsoft to Acquire Innovative Healthcare Technology and Assets From Global Care Solutions Collaborative alliance with Bumrungrad...

We have just published a whitepaper on the use of Office Open XML in Health at the address below: Using Office Open XML Formats to Support Electronic Health Records Portability and Health Industry Standards Abstract: Empowering patients and consumers...