In the ever-evolving healthcare landscape, Microsoft is leading the development of advanced, responsible AI to revolutionize patient and provider experiences, improve population health and reduce healthcare industry costs.
As Michael Robinson recently wrote, it’s an exciting time in the health industry, and Microsoft is honored and excited to be back at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS15) in Chicago, Illinois, April 12-16. HIMSS is a powerful opportunity for our industry to come together and share real-world examples
No matter where your health organization is on its journey to the cloud, the key to a successful path is to take a step-by-step approach.
Over the last four years, I have spoken to hundreds of healthcare organizations about their concerns with cloud adoption. In doing so, I found that it is imperative to demonstrate that the above can be accomplished without compromising on functionality, control, and most importantly, security, privacy and compliance with HIPAA/HITECH regulations.
Enabling interoperability for the DoD is no small task. But it can be done with an open, flexible EHR solution.
Training simulators for healthcare built on a problem-based learning approach can now offer very realistic patient interactions.
I feel very fortunate that in my current role I’m surrounded by inspiring women leaders in technology.
The idea being that no matter where people enter the system, they can easily gain access to medical services. This is part of the intention behind the “No Wrong Door” policy that’s included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).
As technology continues to expand, so do the ethical concerns. Ethics is a branch of knowledge that utilizes conceptual tools to assess situations and morally guide decision-making.
In order for mobile solutions to make a real impact on efficiency and quality of care, they need to make both clinicians and IT happy—not to mention patients.
Patients about to undergo a medical procedure often face pages and pages of documentation that contain medical and legal terms they probably wouldn’t understand on a good day, and which can be even harder to comprehend under the stress of a pending surgery.
Every year, changes in healthcare and in technology necessitate a look at how you can improve your health organization’s care delivery and operational efficiency.
Many millions of dollars are being spent by hospitals around the world on health IT systems to digitize patient information and automate clinical workflows.
