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The software company has been around in the UK for a number of years and when you go to the website you can see where last year they were the winner of the Public Sector contest for Microsoft Partner of the Year for 2010. McKesson uses Microsoft technologies as well so perhaps a way to expand into...
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Thu, Mar 3 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, McKesson, Hospitals, software, NHS, Mergers and Acquisitions
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Is this the year of the developer or what? Everyone is looking for coders and Windows Mobile has announced their contest for healthcare/life sciences applications for the platform. I still keep thinking about the Mobile X-Box application too that comes with the new platform, so perhaps there...
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Mon, Feb 21 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Health IT, clinical trials, Developers, Coding, Life Sciences, mobile technology, progammers, Widows Mobile, X-Boxes
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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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Mon, Feb 21 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Health IT, PACS, Radiology, Amalga, Phillips, Data, Single Sign On, iSite, aggreation, Royal Phillips Electronics
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Last year New Zealand started promoting medical tourism and the company Medtral has now established an office in California to further promote traveling to New Zealand. With only 4 Millions citizens they do have options that are perhaps harder to facilitate in a country as large as the US. ...
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Mon, Feb 14 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, microsoft, Investors, Medical Devices, Health IT, software, Diagnostics, New Zealand, electronic records, VC funding, tourism, Keith Richards, Medtral, non tort
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This video was made by the folks over at Microsoft Channel 9 back in 2006 and it is entertaining as well as educational with a scenario of a group of hackers that break into the system of the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas. Granted since this video was made security upgrades have been numerous and many...
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Fri, Feb 11 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Health IT, Security, Developers, SQL Injection, Passwords, Servers, programmers, Code Room, Channel 9, log ons
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We all probably know by now about the health insurance exchanges coming in to play by the year 2014 and of course prior to that time there’s a lot of data work and organization for setting them up. Microsoft announced a turn key solution working with Microsoft and Microsoft Partners to help get...
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Tue, Feb 8 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, health insurance, Health IT, Microsoft Partners, Azure Platform, Microsoft HIX solutions, databases
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We all know Microsoft is the king of code and they do a lot of stuff right but right now are losing a bit of ground in the mobility area with consumers and thus the shake up and changing around. Sometimes new ideas are a good thing along with new folks to follow through. The big item here...
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Tue, Feb 8 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, Education, HHS, Government, healthcare reform, role models, engineering, techies
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Just a few days ago I reported on a hospital in Israel being the first to port Windows medical applications over to the Ipad. Right after the IPad came out many used Log Me in to remote connect with either a desktop or server and I’m not sure on how Happy is connected but he has great IT department that...
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Mon, Jan 10 2011
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, microsoft, Health IT, Hospitalist, Doctors, Patients, communication, IPad, Tablets, software hospital, mobilit
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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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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, microsoft, Health IT, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Heatlhcare, Amalga, Life Sciences, National Cancer Institute, RHIO, Aggregated hospital data, Steve Shihadeh, Partnering for Cures, Mike Naimoli
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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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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, medicare, Health IT, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, software, Heatlhcare, Amalga, ACO, Norton Healthcare, Accountable Care Ogranization
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To use the application you need to be registered with Quest Diagnostics but the application is free. To view the demo video you can link here to see how it works. The graphics and screens look great. The formularies are listen within. The demo will walk you though a quick e-prescription...
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Tue, Nov 23 2010
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Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, Health IT, PHR, HL7, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, MedPlus, Lab Results, Informed Patient, UCLA, Quest Diagnostics, Meaningful Use, HP, IPad
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Back in January of this year HeatlhVault was announced and now it looks like it is here for all to partake and get started. You can check out the link and there’s a bit about my chat with a German professor who wrote an EMR too, so we talked a lot. Siemens AG is a licensee of Microsoft HealthVault...
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Fri, Nov 19 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Medical Tourism, Germany, Siemens, Prof. Dr. Horst Kunhardt, Assignio
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HealthVault from Microsoft takes one more international step with the development of the platform in China. We have seen some of this in the US with companies working with the “platform” and when connecting you will normally see “powered by HealthVault” somewhere on the portal or within the format...
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Fri, Oct 29 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Medical Records, Medical Devices, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Heatlhcare, China, platform, iSoftStone
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Eventually the fax will die and vendors like SureScripts are offering their new service to allow patient records to be shared security from one office to another. The example cites in the article talks about a patient that was waiting 3 days and was still waiting for one office to send to the other...
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Mon, Oct 25 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Health IT, PHR, HL7, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Lab Results, Informed Patient, Surescripts, Quest, medical records DOD
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If you check in here once in a while you know there’s quite a bit about personal health records and HealthVault. I’m sure the video may be uploaded to YouTube soon so in the meantime I took a few screenshots of the highlights. First off by using the Blue Button the information goes to HealthVault...
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Sat, Oct 9 2010
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, software, White House, Data, Surgeon General, consumers, Blue Button, digital consumer IT literacy