Microsoft Australia in Health

I am proud of the fact that a large number of the nominees for this years AIIA iAwards were Microsoft Health and Human Services Partners. Meridian Health Informatics who won the NSW nomination NTICED (MARVIN) which won the NT nomination Trend Care Systems Read More...

The purchase decisions in Health are being made by the CEO, CMO (Chief Medical Officer) and the executive team, rather than the CIO alone. This poses a problem for many IT companies. How do you give your sales team the skills and confidence to engage Read More...

The Health System is swamped in paper. Although many customers has begun the path towards digitisation, there are few that are anywhere near paperless. However, there are a number of initiatives to invest in ECM and Records Management. SharePoint has Read More...

Treating people with Chronic Diseases (Asthma, Cancer, Mental Illness, Cardiovascular Disease etc) is the biggest area of health expenditure by far. Because of this, the Government focus is shifting rapidly to trying to better manage these patients and Read More...

I have come across an interesting Microsoft Partner who have created a very valuable Occupational Health tool that lives on the desktop. DeskActive is a solution that behaves somewhat like a 'virtual personal trainer' that monitors, prompts and reports Read More...

One of the significant reasons for push back on using IT by Clinicians, is that the User Interfaces for most applications are not intuitive and feel more like an accounting package than a clinical tool. The animation capabilities for user interfaces in Read More...