Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Microsoft: Builing its Interoperable Network

Microsoft is a dominating form in the IT world and is extending that influence within the healthcare sphere rather rapidly. With their own product offerings of Microsoft Vault and Amalga, Microsoft is extending its reach in the healthcare IT systems arena to form relationships with other IT tech vendors. Just recently at the HiMSS Conference 2009 in Chicago (being held this week), Microsoft demo teams demonstrated the new developments they have made with other technology vendors in creating a seamless healthcare system suite for hospitals and healthcare providers alike. Check out this demo of how Microsoft Vault interacts with a specialized user interface technology. This creates a difficult system to beat for any of the proprietary competitors as well as the open source communities.

Microsoft might not even need to partner with other tech vendors in the future as it continually comes up with innovative, new technologies. MicrosoftSurface will revolutionize the way that we compute. The iPhone started this new way of computing by eliminating the keyboard or buttons on the phone. Now there is simply one main touch interface. Microsoft has emulated this new computing design with its MicrosoftSurface. With this technology, hospitals and patient clinics can be completely redone. Information will only be a touch away and patients will have the ability to utilize the screens as well in waiting rooms, etc.

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