http://www.answerstodiseases.com Frequent Health News Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:30:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 http://www.answerstodiseases.com/microsoft-unified-communications-in-health%e2%80%94saving-lives-saving-money/ http://www.answerstodiseases.com/microsoft-unified-communications-in-health%e2%80%94saving-lives-saving-money/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:30:20 +0000 Admin http://www.answerstodiseases.com/microsoft-unified-communications-in-health%e2%80%94saving-lives-saving-money/ HealthBlog readers know that Im a huge proponent for eHealth strategies as a means to improve health and healthcare around the world.  More than a decade ago, I helped establish a company that harnessed the power of the Internet to connect physicians…(read more)

]]> http://www.answerstodiseases.com/microsoft-unified-communications-in-health%e2%80%94saving-lives-saving-money/feed/ 0 http://www.answerstodiseases.com/the-best-of-microsoft-health-tech-today/ http://www.answerstodiseases.com/the-best-of-microsoft-health-tech-today/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:30:16 +0000 Admin http://www.answerstodiseases.com/the-best-of-microsoft-health-tech-today/ Now that we have concluded our first season of Microsoft Health Tech Today , I would like to personally thank you for viewing our programs.  While we plan exciting new program topics for next season, Id like to invite you to watch some of my favorite…(read more)

]]> http://www.answerstodiseases.com/the-best-of-microsoft-health-tech-today/feed/ 0 http://www.answerstodiseases.com/leading-with-our-health-future/ http://www.answerstodiseases.com/leading-with-our-health-future/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:30:39 +0000 Admin http://www.answerstodiseases.com/leading-with-our-health-future/ Im back in the office after a few days on the road to speak at Microsofts annual field training event, ISX, in Atlanta.  It was great to mingle with my Microsoft friends and colleagues from around the world and hear their firsthand reports of how…(read more)

]]> http://www.answerstodiseases.com/leading-with-our-health-future/feed/ 0 http://www.answerstodiseases.com/emr-meaningful-use-final-rules-published-ready-set-go/ http://www.answerstodiseases.com/emr-meaningful-use-final-rules-published-ready-set-go/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:30:11 +0000 Admin http://www.answerstodiseases.com/emr-meaningful-use-final-rules-published-ready-set-go/ HHS has published final rules on meaningful use.  They are more flexible.  The rules are posted all over the web and Ive provided some links at the bottom of this post.  More than $28 Billion is on the line to help you make the transition…(read more)

]]> http://www.answerstodiseases.com/emr-meaningful-use-final-rules-published-ready-set-go/feed/ 0 http://www.answerstodiseases.com/powerful-new-resources-and-tools-for-biological-scientists-from-microsoft-research/ http://www.answerstodiseases.com/powerful-new-resources-and-tools-for-biological-scientists-from-microsoft-research/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:30:30 +0000 Admin http://www.answerstodiseases.com/powerful-new-resources-and-tools-for-biological-scientists-from-microsoft-research/ Good news for biological scientists and programmers.  Tomorrow, July 10th, in Boston, the External Research division of Microsoft Research will introduce the Microsoft Biology Initiative , resources designed to help biological scientists and programmers…(read more)

]]> http://www.answerstodiseases.com/powerful-new-resources-and-tools-for-biological-scientists-from-microsoft-research/feed/ 0 http://www.answerstodiseases.com/make-sure-your-health-organization-has-enough-power-when-you-%e2%80%9cflip-the-switch%e2%80%9d/ http://www.answerstodiseases.com/make-sure-your-health-organization-has-enough-power-when-you-%e2%80%9cflip-the-switch%e2%80%9d/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:30:14 +0000 Admin http://www.answerstodiseases.com/make-sure-your-health-organization-has-enough-power-when-you-%e2%80%9cflip-the-switch%e2%80%9d/ My favorite health futurist and commentator, Ian Morrison, offers another provocative essay in this weeks online edition of Hospitals and Health Networks .  In Flip the Switch he explores two prominent themes in the healthcare industry, both…(read more)

]]> http://www.answerstodiseases.com/make-sure-your-health-organization-has-enough-power-when-you-%e2%80%9cflip-the-switch%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 http://www.answerstodiseases.com/supporting-your-health-decisions-with-bing/ http://www.answerstodiseases.com/supporting-your-health-decisions-with-bing/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:30:13 +0000 Admin http://www.answerstodiseases.com/supporting-your-health-decisions-with-bing/ My friend and Microsoft colleague, medical search guru Dr. Alain Rappaport, called me the other day.  He wanted to tell me about some of the cool new health information updates that have been made to Bing.  As you know, Bing is much more than…(read more)

]]> http://www.answerstodiseases.com/supporting-your-health-decisions-with-bing/feed/ 0 http://www.answerstodiseases.com/american-medicine-and-general-motors%e2%80%94more-in-common-than-you-might-think/ http://www.answerstodiseases.com/american-medicine-and-general-motors%e2%80%94more-in-common-than-you-might-think/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:30:44 +0000 Admin http://www.answerstodiseases.com/american-medicine-and-general-motors%e2%80%94more-in-common-than-you-might-think/ When I was in medical school in Toledo, Ohio, my wife worked in a hospital medical laboratory.  Many of her coworkers were the spouses of well paid, union auto workers.  My wife used to tell me that her coworkers and their husbands would boast…(read more)

]]> http://www.answerstodiseases.com/american-medicine-and-general-motors%e2%80%94more-in-common-than-you-might-think/feed/ 0 http://www.answerstodiseases.com/the-british-are-coming%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6to-healthvault/ http://www.answerstodiseases.com/the-british-are-coming%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6to-healthvault/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:30:10 +0000 Admin http://www.answerstodiseases.com/the-british-are-coming%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6to-healthvault/ Or perhaps I should say, HealthVault has come to the British.  I am extremely pleased to announce that as of today, HealthVault is now available in the UK.  It was just a couple of weeks ago that I announced the availability of HealthVault …(read more)

]]> http://www.answerstodiseases.com/the-british-are-coming%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6to-healthvault/feed/ 0 http://www.answerstodiseases.com/surfacing-advanced-solutions-in-health-and-healthcare%e2%80%94a-challenge-to-developers-of-clinical-systems/ http://www.answerstodiseases.com/surfacing-advanced-solutions-in-health-and-healthcare%e2%80%94a-challenge-to-developers-of-clinical-systems/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:30:27 +0000 Admin http://www.answerstodiseases.com/surfacing-advanced-solutions-in-health-and-healthcare%e2%80%94a-challenge-to-developers-of-clinical-systems/ Last September I posted a piece titled Whats ahead for clinical computing .  In October I shared some of my thoughts on how Windows 7 and future operating systems would change the ways clinicians work with computers.  More recently, I discussed…(read more)

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