Modernizing Health Information

Modernizing Health Information

Help improve patient care, enhance care quality, and boost operational performance using information and communications technology and real-time business intelligence.

Medical errors causing patient harm are a growing public health issue. When error occurs, fault is often put on the individual caregiver, not taking into account the conditions in which the issue occurred. Many of these problems are caused by faulty systems, processes, and conditions that lead people to make mistakes or fail to prevent them. Improving the quality of decisions and speed of communication across the healthcare continuum will help prevent errors and, thereby, improve patient safety while helping to contain the spiraling cost of delivering care. This includes communication between various providers, between healthcare workers, and between healthcare workers and patients.

Make informed decisions for better outcomes

Healthcare organizations often lack timely, comprehensive information to make informed decisions due to a lack of systems integration. Along with this is the inability to effectively communicate across the healthcare delivery community. Modernizing Health Information is a systematic approach to using information communications technology (ICT) and real-time business intelligence to help you improve patient care and safety, quality measures, and operational performance. By digitizing and connecting health information, creating a platform to support decision-making, and advancing collaboration between health providers and patients, you can reduce medical errors, improve clinical and organizational outcomes, and increase efficiencies.
 

Three steps to modernizing health information

  • Connect information. Connect digital imaging and electronic health records.
  • Collaborate with others. Promote communication between healthcare providers and with patients.
  • Support decisions. Implement a unified system of intelligence.

Related solutions

Microsoft works with key partners to help transform health delivery through solutions built on core Microsoft technologies. We have partnered with the organizations below to deliver electronic medical records and imaging solutions. Their solutions are subject to regional product availability and customer ICT environment. 
 

Connect information 

Microsoft partner solutions

  • Provides access to a patient’s complete imaging history.
  • Makes images available anywhere, anytime, in less than three seconds.

  • Reliable with access to data with.

Allscripts Electronic Health Record

  • Improves workflow and reduces time and costs related to managing paper records

  • Connects patients, payers, other systems, pharmacies, labs, and others.

  • Ranked number one in physician practice revenue (KLAS).

iSOFT Electronic Health Record

  • Provides automated decision support at each step along the medication management journey.
  • Helps reduce hospital medication errors by more than 40 percent.
  • Increases revenues through improved uptime.

Collaborate with others

HealthVault Community Connect is a portal that helps connect healthcare organizations to their referring communities and patients, giving healthcare organizations, patients, and referring providers a place to connect and share health information before and after treatment.
  • Improves connections with the referral community to help facilitate better health outcomes, simplify care coordination, and lower administration costs.
  • Enhances connections with patients to help them be more engaged in their health decisions and simplify registration and post discharge while improving coordination of patient care in line with meaningful use requirements.
  • Provides flexible and proven technology which integrates with existing and new systems.

Support decisions

Amalga is a unified approach to health data, aggregating data into a centralized platform and interface to support informed decisions.
  • Maximizes existing technology investments yet built to scale.
  • Brings data together in an adaptable repository that promotes data reuse and agility, helping organizations quickly respond to the ever-changing demands for delivering quality care.
  • Enables smarter decisions and faster turnarounds through real-time insights.

 

Make informed decisions for better outcomes

Healthcare organizations often lack timely, comprehensive information to make informed decisions due to a lack of systems integration. Along with this is the inability to effectively communicate across the healthcare delivery community. Modernizing Health Information is a systematic approach to using information communications technology (ICT) and real-time business intelligence to help you improve patient care and safety, quality measures, and operational performance. By digitizing and connecting health information, creating a platform to support decision-making, and advancing collaboration between health providers and patients, you can reduce medical errors, improve clinical and organizational outcomes, and increase efficiencies.

Three steps to modernizing health information

  • Connect information. Connect digital imaging and electronic health records.

  • Collaborate with others. Promote communication between healthcare providers and with patients.

  • Support decisions. Implement a unified system of intelligence.

Related solutions

Microsoft works with key partners to help transform health delivery through solutions built on core Microsoft technologies. We have partnered with the organizations below to deliver electronic medical records and imaging solutions. Their solutions are subject to regional product availability and customer ICT environment. 

Connect information 

Microsoft partner solutions

  • Provides access to a patient’s complete imaging history
  • Makes images available anywhere, anytime, in less than three seconds
  • Reliable with access to data with 99.9% uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 access to technical service engineers

  • Improves workflow and reduces time and costs related to managing paper records
  • Connects patients, payers, other systems, pharmacies, labs, and others.
  • Ranked number one in physician practice revenue (KLAS).

  • Improves organizational efficiencies.
  • Reduces medical errors and improves patient satisfaction.
  • Helps to increase compliance with regulations.

  • Provides automated decision support at each step along the medication management journey.
  • Helps reduce hospital medication errors by more than 40 percent.
  • Increases revenues through improved uptime.

Collaborate with others

HealthVault Community Connect is a portal that helps connect healthcare organizations to their referring communities and patients, giving healthcare organizations, patients, and referring providers a place to connect and share health information before and after treatment.

  • Improves connections with the referral community to help facilitate better health outcomes, simplify care coordination, and lower administration costs.
  • Enhances connections with patients to help them be more engaged in their health decisions and simplify registration and post discharge while improving coordination of patient care in line with meaningful use requirements.
  • Provides flexible and proven technology which integrates with existing and new systems.

Support decisions

Amalga Unified Intelligence System is a unified approach to health data, aggregating data into a centralized platform and interface to support informed decisions.

  • Maximizes existing technology investments yet built to scale.

  • Brings data together in an adaptable repository that promotes data reuse and agility, helping organizations quickly respond to the ever-changing demands for delivering quality care.

  • Enables smarter decisions and faster turnarounds through real-time insights.