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Microsoft HUG--Wish you were here Day 2

Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:49 PM by hlthblog
If you want to go straight to the really sexy stuff , scroll toward the bottom of this entry and see the photos and video of Microsoft Surface in Health. If you want a more complete view of the day's proceedings, read on. Yesterday ended with a very nice Read More...
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Microsoft Research: How we watch the computer, how it watches us

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 2:46 PM by hlthblog
At least once each year I trek on over to visit my colleagues at Microsoft Research . It's actually not much of a trek. The group's headquarters are really just a few blocks from my own office on the Microsoft campus. I was especially looking forward Read More...
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Get Your Golden Ticket Here: The Microsoft Health Users Group Conference

Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 5:45 PM by hlthblog
Would you like to get the latest scoop on HealthVault and Microsoft Amalga ? How about a sneak peek at future health solutions using Microsoft Surface ? Would you like to see how some of the world's leading healthcare organizations are improving workflow Read More...
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Warning! For American clinicians only

Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:02 PM by hlthblog
OK, I hope the headline caught your attention. If you are a clinician, keep reading. If you are not a doctor, nurse or other healthcare provider it's OK to read this too. In fact, you probably should. A regular theme on HealthBlog has been the growing Read More...
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Healthcare gets WIRED

Posted Sunday, December 09, 2007 6:46 PM by hlthblog
No, this isn't another story about Unified Communications, cellular phones, or even healthcare's most wired hospitals. It's about a keynote address I attended this morning at the World Healthcare Innovation and IT Congress in Washington, D.C., at the Read More...
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More evidence the healthcare world is flat

Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:32 PM by hlthblog
I'm writing this on my flight back to Seattle from the Consumer Health World Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference is actually just getting underway. My stay was abbreviated due to the fact that I have a mid-week speaking engagement in California Read More...
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Going Green: Another ROI for the EMR

Posted Friday, November 30, 2007 6:49 PM by hlthblog
A year ago last February my life almost came to an end. My wife and I were driving down a country lane when out of the corner of my right eye, I saw a flash of green. At that exact moment my wife uttered "Oh my God". I saw her cover her head and then Read More...
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Data input: Still a final frontier in clinical computing but progress is being made

Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 6:26 PM by hlthblog
I've called "data input" the final frontier in clinical computing. In fact, data input has been a frequent topic on HealthBlog these past few years. If you want to see for yourself, just type in "data input" in the handy search box on the upper right-hand Read More...
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A New Day in Healthcare IT

Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 7:56 AM by hlthblog
In my last Blog posting I hinted that a "new day was coming in Healthcare IT". As HealthBlog readers may have surmised, I had advance knowledge of an announcement that was made late last evening and is hitting the press today. That announcement is the Read More...
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Mailbag: HealthBlog readers confirm some important trends

Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 10:11 AM by hlthblog
I wanted to share a couple of insightful comments on previous HealthBlog posts that I received this week. One reader responds to my post about a public hospital in Spain, Torrevieja Salud , that I wrote about while attending a health leaders event in Read More...
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The commodity storm; unleashing an EMR tornado for small physician offices and clinics

Posted Friday, October 19, 2007 8:29 PM by hlthblog
My latest travels took me to Louisville, Kentucky, where I provided a keynote for a breakfast event organized by Health Enterprises Network . It was a gathering of more than 275 healthcare, business, and community leaders from around the central Kentucky Read More...
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Bridging the Gaps in Healthcare IT

Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:19 PM by hlthblog
I'm sitting in Narita Airport waiting for my flight back to Seattle and reflecting on my experiences at the STS Forum in Kyoto and the meetings I had with customers in Tokyo. Besides the opportunity to hear from Japan's new prime minister, I was thrilled Read More...
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Microsoft Healthcare Common User Interface: Now available free worldwide

Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 3:25 PM by hlthblog
Anyone who works in healthcare knows that many of today’s clinical software applications leave a lot to be desired when it comes to “user experience”. Unlike ubiquitous, commodity software used in other businesses, healthcare applications are highly proprietary Read More...
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American Healthcare and Falling Bridges: Too much in common

Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:13 PM by hlthblog
I've mentioned before on this Blog that I'm a fan of Most-Wired Online and its guest editorials. Every so often, a Most-Wired edition comes across my desk that especially draws me in. This week's editorials by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island Read More...
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Arkansas Children's Hospital: IT Innovations Enhancing the Care of Hospitalized Children

Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:45 AM by hlthblog
Every so often we do a program in my House Calls for Healthcare Professionals series of audio and video-casts that really seems to hit the mark in demonstrating the value of Microsoft technologies in the healthcare industry. I want to draw your attention Read More...
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