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If you are a casual reader here, this may be a bit confusing with the products, but there have been two versions of Amalga that Microsoft has produced and marketed. The Amalga HIS Systems was a total EHR program from ground up for hospitals that had nothing in Health IT and was sold to the international...
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If you are attending the HIMMS convention, here’s some of what you can expect to see at the Microsoft booth(s), which is always busy. If you want to read up about how Amalga is working in healthcare, here’s a link below to an interview I did last year with Steve Shihadeh. You can always search this blog...
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A couple years back I had the opportunity to sit in on a couple planning meetings with Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in southern California as I was present to talk about the implementation of Tablet PCs with the Eclipsys system. I do have to say they had a very organized system and I actually...
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Back in June of this year Microsoft and Sentillion signed a licensing agreement and now as things move along they will become part of the Microsoft Healthcare group. One of the notable case studies listed has been their work with Tenet hospitals. Single Sign on for Microsoft Amalga...
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Thu, Dec 10 2009
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As the first post-acute care organization to adopt Microsoft Amalga, Golden Living will integrate patient care across its own businesses, including skilled nursing, long-term care, rehabilitation therapy, assisted living, home health and hospice, so that a patient's health information follows them...
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Wed, Dec 2 2009
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First of all I would like to say thank you for the recognition from Dr. Crounse at Microsoft. As he mentions this is a huge project to train physicians and let’s throw in patients too, as they are part of the ultimate solution, everybody gets involved as it’s no longer for “those guys over...
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The center will offer 9 tests initially and will grow to 50 by year end. The article stated there are over 2000 currently available, but the hospital is selectively working to find the tests that will best benefit diagnosis and treatments for their patients. The number of tests is continuing...
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Fri, Mar 27 2009
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Microsoft Amalga has been chosen to the software used to connect the network of hospitals. Each hospital was an “island” and had their own system and were speaking their own language. Amalga brings it all together and translates the data. The ER rooms are able to have access to see...
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Thu, Jan 29 2009
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St. Joseph uses Microsoft Amalga inside the hospitals so the EHRs at the doctor’s offices will be connecting with TouchWorks from Allscripts, who also sponsors and offers a free e-prescribing tool for any physician and the link is always on the site here. There are already around 300 physicians...
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Thu, Dec 18 2008
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Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet does a nice write up here on his visit to the physician and yes, us “geeks” find our way there too We are probably some of the most curious patients to arrive, as we are looking constantly to see what technology is being used in the medical offices, as it is a known fact...
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Wed, Oct 15 2008
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Just yesterday I posted about the news with Microsoft Amalga and Philips Speech Recognition. If you are regular reader of the blog here you will find posts relative to Nuance, Dragon Naturally Speaking and Speech Recognition all over the place, as everyone knows I like and use it myself, sure...
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Wed, Oct 1 2008
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Amalga from Microsoft with a focus on business intelligence. Recently I posted relative to El Camino hospital in the silicon valley area also selecting Amalga for their new facility. As well all know, integration services through out healthcare is moving quickly, as recently posted Kaiser, the...
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This appears to be a second life here for financing after the Lehman bankruptcy put the brakes on the existing investments that were to move the merger. Also in the news of late: Misys Healthcare Systems and iMedica Corp. have settled a dispute over a year-old contract under which Misys licensed...
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Mon, Sep 29 2008
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Dictation services for Radiology with the integration of the two services. More about the hospital integration services can be found here. Recently I have posted about Philips and their investments with the manufacturing of MRI machines in China as well, so they have a pretty large portfolio...
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