The WW Health ICT Blog

  Microsoft Health User Group (Microsoft HUG) presents an IT Professional webinar on Wednesday, April 20 th . The topic for this webinar is: Microsoft HealthVault and the Direct Project . Sean Nolan from Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group will be...

Windows Intune is one of many Microsoft cloud services that can help you centrally manage and secure your PCs with a comprehensive, end-to-end Microsoft solution that includes PC management, endpoint protection, Windows upgrades, and more. Whether for...

Microsoft HealthVault Community Connect is a SharePoint Server and Microsoft Amalga based portal solution that enables healthcare organizations to easily generate electronic visit summaries and share them with their patients and provider community. HealthVault...

  It’s been few months since my last blog due to focusing on various health ICT activities at Microsoft.  During this time, I tried to send few updates on the Health ICT twitter feed #whealthict.  I am now back at a point where I can resume...

Microsoft Health Users Group Exchange 2010 Transforming Health to Achieve Meaningful Use Microsoft Corporate Campus Redmond, WA September 22nd& 23 rd Interested in presenting at Microsoft Health Users Group Exchange 2010 in Redmond, WA? The Call for...

The IHE IT Infrastructure (ITI) Technical Committee has published the following supplements to the ITI Technical Framework for Public Comment.  If you are involved with health data and information services projects, I encourage you to review these...

The Clinical Documentation Solution Accelerator (CDSA) for the Microsoft Office system is now released and available for you to download and start using in your clinical applications.  CDSA is a Connected Health Platform resource that enables you...

I have a couple of blogs on CDSA here and here .  CDSA was planned for release Mid April but we have experienced some delays.  Andy Payne, the CUI PM from Microsoft UK who is leading this effort will provide an update on the new release date...

Some of you may have noticed already that we have made a major updates to the Microsoft Connected Health Platform (CHP) area on the Health ICT Resource Center.  The update affected the main CHP Silverlight based navigation UI and the guidance, tools...

Our team in the UK that is doing the great work on the Clinical Documentation Solution Accelerator (CDSA) for the Microsoft Office System, that we showcased at HIMSS earlier this month have indicated that it will be ready for general release on April...

This week we have released a new whitepaper entitled ‘Answering the Health ICT Challenge: An Optimized Infrastructure’. The whitepaper highlights the critical role of an optimized infrastructure as a foundation for meaningful use of health ICT systems...

At the RSA conference this week, Microsoft announced the availability of the U-Prove Community Technology Preview (CTP) .  The U-Prove CTP integrates with the Microsoft identity platform technologies (Windows Identity Foundation, Windows CardSpace...

Often times we get driven by acronyms such as ones you are probably being bombarded with on daily basis. SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. These acronyms provide a practical view and ‘How To’ steps to help those of us trying to figure out how to plug into The Cloud...

I arrived to Atlanta late Saturday so that I can attend the Microsoft Health Users Group Exchange (Microsoft HUG) event on Sunday. Full day agenda with great conversations and sessions where Customers, Partners, and Microsoft presenters highlighted impressive...

The Microsoft team in the UK just completed another development cycle on the Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) guidance and tools. The Microsoft Health CUI provides user interface Design Guidance , Toolkit controls, and a technology demonstrator...

For the latest information on the great solutions, innovations, and offerings that Microsoft and our Partners are showcasing at the Microsoft booth at HIMSS 2010 in Atlanta Georgia, please check here . This post will be focusing on the activities we...

One of the priority areas we’ve been heavily focusing on lately is around optimizing information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure investments for health organizations. Optimizing ICT is enabled through the Connected Health Platform (CHP...

Earlier this month, Microsoft participated in the five day IHE interoperability testing in Chicago - aka NA Connectathon - with our open source XDS.b Registry and Repository Solution Accelerator on CodePlex that you can access from the Health ICT Resource...

Microsoft Health Tech Today is a fast-paced, online video series showcasing cutting-edge stories at the intersection of health and information technology. The monthly program demonstrates how software innovation is improving health around the world. ...

Connected Health Framework – Architecture and Design Blueprint We have recently released a new version of the Microsoft Connected Health Framework – Architecture and Design Blueprint (CHF-ADB v2).  For those of new who are new to CHF-ADB, it offers...

Working in great partnership with iLink Systems healthcare solutions team, we have uploaded a new beta release of our IHE XDS.b Reference Implementation on the Microsoft’s open source project hosting web site CodePlex . The XDS.b Reference Implementation...

Health Platform Optimization tool to Accelerate Deployment of Microsoft Technology Ever since I can remember, when I used to face a complex problem, there was this universal wisdom that invited me to ‘go back to basics’ as a foundation for...

You may be wondering what’s in common between these two. It is called CUI that stands for (Microsoft Health) Common User Interface. If you have one or more of the scenarios below: - You are developing healthcare applications to use in your organization...

Hello everyone! As some of you may have noticed already, we have recently completed moving our HealthIT content from the MSDN site http://msdn.microsoft.com/health to the new Microsoft in Health Architecture & Technology site at http://www.microsoft...

Hello Everyone, My name is Teddy Bachour and I am the Industry Technology Strategist for WW Health. I joined the Microsoft Healthcare Group about 9 years ago and have been working with Health IT for the past 18 years. It has always been a great joy...