With today's emphasis on outcomes, improved efficiency and reducing costs, hospitals are looking to improve management and share resources to stay profitable and keep medical staff focused on what they do best - providing excellence in patient care. Read how hospitals around the world are harnessing the power of Microsoft’s knowledge-driven health technology to better serve their patients.

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RoyalMelbourneHospital
When the Royal Melbourne Hospital wanted to improve the efficiency of its patient assessment process, it turned to a Microsoft solution that, through use of a Pocket PC device, puts patient information directly into the consulting physician's hands.
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South Western Sydney Area Health Service
South Western Sydney Area Health Service wanted to implement decentralised requisition policy and simplify procedures in the financial management system. So it chose a Microsoft solution to help ensure the system was reliable, flexible and secure.
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healthAlliance NZ
Read how the Counties Manukau and Waitemata District health boards, under the healthAlliance NZ umbrella, reached cost reduction goals for managing their server and desktop environment using Microsoft technology.
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Copenhagen Hospital Corporation
The Copenhagen Hospital Corporation administers seven hospitals and more than 1,000 disparate IT systems. To merge them into one solution providing easy, secure access to clinical, organisational and management information for all clinicians and healthcare staff, it turned to Microsoft.
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SalfordRoyalHospital
When Salford Royal Hospital wanted to take advantage of an electronic patient records systems without the wholesale replacement of existing departmental systems, it deployed a structured system using Microsoft technology.
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Healthcare Partners
With nine medical practices and administration offices throughout the greater Los Angeles area, Healthcare Partners wanted an enterprise solution that could integrate its disparate administration systems into one secure solution. So they implemented a Microsoft solution.
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WashingtonHospitalCenter
Caring for more than 250,000 patients annually, Washington Hospital Center needed to provide instant access to all types of patient information for physicians, nurses and managers throughout the hospital. So it implemented the Microsoft .NET Framework to benefit from improved patient care, efficient patient data and file retrieval and reduced costs.
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Children's Hospital
Read how the Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle are now benefiting from more efficient information retrieval, lower record-keeping expenses and lower IT support costs.
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IngolstadtHospital
To manage its 1,100 beds, 300 physicians and 3,000 employees, Germany's Ingolstadt Hospital implemented an integrated administration solution using Microsoft technologies, increasing productivity and efficiency and reducing costs.
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Massachusetts Medical Society
To reduce errors when recording patient information, Massachusetts Medical Society used Microsoft technology to build its own electronic digital medical record system, called Continuity of Care Record. Benefits included increased accuracy, reduced costs and more time for doctors to treat patients.
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Clinical Risk Management
This video of the South Australian Department of Human Services discusses clinical risk management.
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Whitepapers
Delivering on the Promise: an adaptive approach to information technology in healthcare
This paper looks at how an adaptive approach to information technology in healthcare can improve patient care and reduce costs.
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Microsoft Collaborative Health
This paper looks at technology solutions available for healthcare providers.
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