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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...
View ArticleSetting aside differences and embracing what connects us
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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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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