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This stands to be a big plus for radiologists to be able to use a single click to access patient records in Microsoft Amalga with a single sign on capability now being extended for imaging. Currently in many hospitals radiologists have to navigate several screens to view and read the additional...
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HealthVault and Amalga are very commonly used together with Microsoft solutions and the first time this was introduced on a large scale was at Scripps in San Diego and Steve Shihadeh from Microsoft and I had nice chat about it. With using HealthVault this captures the ability to analyze patient...
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Thu, Dec 16 2010
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This ACO is the first in the region and one of four national pilot sites for the Brookings-Dartmouth ACO Pilot Project. ED clinicians, primary care doctors, specialists, nurses, patients or family members will have the ability to access, view and share health data at the right time for more more...
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Thu, Dec 2 2010
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The reason for the cutback is a decline of patient volume and revenue. If you are not familiar with this hospital, they are in my opinion the most wired hospital in the US and even have translator technology and the end of the beds in the ICU. They have done their analysis to target savings...
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Sat, Aug 14 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Hospital, healthcare, microsoft, Health IT, California, Amalga, Layoffs, Speech Recognition, wireless, El Camino Hospital, earthquakes, Silicon Valley, interventional procedure
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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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Thu, Jul 22 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, software, Amalga, Amalga HIS, aggregation, Amalga UIS, HIS
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I recently had the opportunity to spend some time discussing with Chris Sullivan, National Director, Health Provider Solutions, Microsoft Health & Life Sciences, the company’s support and solutions for small physician practices and hospitals. Electronic medical records and Health IT is foremost...
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Fri, Jun 25 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, EMR, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Health IT, HealthVault, Amalga, Life Sciences, Microsoft Partners, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Azyxxi, Chris Sullivan, Health Solutions
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Austin Merrit offers his opinions and reasons for speculation below and who he thinks are potential candidates. I guess only time will really tell the story. If you have read here often enough then you may have read some of my interviews with those in Healthcare at Microsoft and are familiar...
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Wed, Apr 7 2010
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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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Fri, Feb 26 2010
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Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Surface, PHR, Mobility, HealthVault, HIMMS, Amalga
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When it comes to using technology and having a facility that has all the modern conveniences, who wouldn’t want to work here if you are on the clinical side of healthcare. This is another view of how things operate and what I like seeing is the robot, making deliveries to the nurses station. ...
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Fri, Jan 29 2010
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As what is done here in the US, Amalga will be integrating and aggregating data with existing software systems that are already in place. Amalga has basically 2 different applications that are provided, one a full complete solution which includes medical records and the entire system from top to...
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Wed, Jan 20 2010
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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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This week I spent a day at the World Medical Tourism Conference in Los Angeles and had a few minutes for an informal quick interview with Curtis Schroeder CEO Bumrungrad International Hospital and Nate McLemore, Senior Director Bus. Development Health Solutions at Microsoft. In the news...
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Thu, Oct 29 2009
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This is not the first time Bumrungrad Hospital has been covered on the blog. Earlier this year the wireless network with Windows Mobile and a section about Amalga, so the HealthVault addition today adds it all up. The hospital is one of the first outside the US using the entire Amalga...
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Wed, Oct 28 2009
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Caritas Christi like many other hospital has been under a lot of financial stress (back listing to Desperate Hospitals series) and in moving forward with the future, the hospital chain in invoking technology with Microsoft to provide better patient care and save money at the same time. Recently...
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Wed, Oct 14 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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Sat, Oct 10 2009
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, CEO, Health IT, Physicians, PHR, Google Health, HealthVault, Internet, Amalga, Healthblog, Blumenthal, training programs