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A Paperless Hospital Information System for less than 1Million? What we can...
Earlier this week I was in Barcelona, Spain, presenting at a Microsoft customer event called the Health Industry Leaders Innovation Forum. Healthcare executives from across the EMEA region came...
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Healthcare 2007: The paper blizzard persists
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of undergoing an outpatient medical procedure in one of Seattle’s most highly regarded medical centers. Without getting into unpleasant details, let’s just say it...
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Healthcare IT Innovation in the Most Surprising Places: When size doesn't matter
I'm back from Kansas City where we hosted a very enjoyable Healthcare Executive Forum event with some of our customers. Every time I get out in the field I'm amazed by some of the great work our...
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Commodity software; the next wave in contemporary hospital information systems
Hospital de São SebastiãoEarlier this year, I shared the amazing story of Torrevieja Salud Hospital in the Valencia Region of Spain. Hospital IT staff at Torrevieja Salud had built a very robust,...
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Mailbag: HealthBlog readers confirm some important trends
I wanted to share a couple of insightful comments on previous HealthBlog posts that I received this week. One reader responds to my post about a public hospital in Spain, Torrevieja Salud, that I...
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Hopping along toward better health in Western Australia
Regular HealthBlog readers know that I often find symbolism in things that I see as I travel the world. In Japan it was a wooden bridge in a serene garden. In Switzerland it was the Swiss Army...
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Don’t get trapped in a health data vortex without the tech you need to manage it
HealthBlog readers may have noted my absence over the last two weeks. That’s because I was taking a little break from my day job at Microsoft. My wife and I enjoyed a much needed vacation in Sedona,...
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Improving health and healthcare, a global perspective
If you live in America and work in the healthcare industry it is easy to assume that the issues we face in providing care to our population are uniquely American. While it is true that we spend more...
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After the EMR. The technologies that will truly transform healthcare and...
Last week, Healthcare IT News editor Mike Miliard wrote a piece that might have escaped your attention. He offered up 18 health technologies poised for big growth based on data from HIMSS Analytics....
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Health Information Exchange (HIE). A recipe that just might work.
If there is anything that plagues the health industry and severely damages the value proposition for information technology in healthcare, it is the dismal failure to achieve system interoperability...
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A secret shopper's perspectives on the EHR and clinical workflow
As someone who has practiced medicine using both paper and electronic records, and someone who's been focused on the health tech scene for the past 20 years, you might think I've seen it all. Indeed,...
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The Next Chapter--Microsoft and digital technologies in health and healthcare...
\ When I joined Microsoft in September of 2002 I never dreamed I'd be writing this blog post in January of 2016. Of course in 2002 HealthBlog didn't exist. HealthBlog wasn't born until October of 2005....
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Health Information Exchange (HIE). A recipe that just might work.
If there is anything that plagues the health industry and severely damages the value proposition for information technology in healthcare, it is the dismal failure to achieve system interoperability...
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Reinventing and moving beyond the EHR. The proof is all around us.
HealthITNews reports that at least one popular EHR vendor (eClinicalWorks) is launching the flagship version of its cloud service solution by saying, “Don’t call it an EHR”. Perhaps we shouldn’t be...
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What doctors aren’t learning in medical school, and what needs to be done...
I came across the most wonderful article today on ForbesBrandVoice by athenahealth contributor, Dr. Stephen Klasko. The article, What Doctors Aren’t Learning In Medical School And Why It Matters,...
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Bendigo Health, building a cloud first, mobile first health platform of the...
This morning I had the distinct pleasure of spending an hour with Danny Lindrea, solutions architect at Bendigo Health. Mr. Lindrea came to Microsoft in Redmond to meet some of the members of our...
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Pushing the pause button and being thankful
With the Thanksgiving Holiday fast approaching, I wanted to take a moment to let my readers know how much I have appreciated your patronage of HealthBlog over the years. I’ve been writing this blog...
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Modernizing Communication and Collaboration in Healthcare
When I started my career at Microsoft nearly 14 years ago, I dreamed of the day when technology could deliver a total communication and collaboration solution for healthcare. Over the last decade I’ve...
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It really is a new day at Microsoft. I cannot emphasize how much things have changed. A significant part of my job at the company is doing what we call executive engagement. At our beautiful briefing...
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Three things hospitals and health systems need to do in 2016 and why
This is the time of year we all start making resolutions and predictions for the new year ahead. One of my fellow executives here at Microsoft asked me to respond to the following question: “If I could...
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