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Answering the health ICT challenge: An optimized infrastructure

As the guardian of health data, ICT departments need to build technology foundations that enable better, more efficient care; workforce mobility; and new delivery models that empower individuals to manage their own health.

Building strategic advantage through IT

This white paper describes how IT can provide a return on knowledge that leads to a competitive edge.

Business intelligence: A new prescription for boosting cost management, productivity, and outcomes

This white paper discusses Business Intelligence for healthcare: The new prescription for boosting cost management, productivity, and medical outcomes.

Communication and collaboration in healthcare: Connecting with our patients

Examining the growing demand and customer expectations around physician services, communication and collaboration by electronic means.

Connected Health Framework for health payers

This datasheet gives an overview of the Connected Health Framework for Health Plans, a simple, agile, reference architecture based on open industry standards that enables health plans to realize and accelerate time to business value.

Connected Health Framework for health payers

This white paper gives detailed information on the Connected Health Framework for Health Plans, a simple, agile, reference architecture based on open industry standards that enables health plans to realize and accelerate time to business value.

Creating the People Ready Business - enterprise performance management

This white paper describes enterprise performance management and how it expedites achievement of positive business outcomes in companies of all shapes and sizes.

Cutting complexity and costs for health payers

Find out how Microsoft’s portfolio of cost cutting solutions and partner offerings enable health plans to realize a quicker ROI and, in most cases, leverage assets they already own.

Enabling a dynamic datacenter with Microsoft virtualization

This white paper examines strategies for moving an organization toward more dynamic IT using datacenter virtualization technologies.

First look: Microsoft Office 2010

Whether you work primarily in the office or on the go, you’ll find smart tools in Microsoft Office 2010 that enable you to get your work done easier, faster, and more professionally than ever.

Five best practices for optimizing the desktop infrastructure

Learn the five best practices for optimizing your desktop infrastructure.

Getting Started with HL7 v3 & BizTalk

This paper provides developers with an overview of HL7 version 3 Messaging (HL7 v3) concepts, how to build HL7 v3 solutions with Microsoft® BizTalk Server 2006, and how to convert message format from HL7 v3 to HL7 Version 2 Messaging (HL7 v2).

Health improvement technology article

Industrial-age-model health information technologies were never designed to address our national health shortage and under-performing delivery system crises at their root cause levels. By Dennis Schmuland, M.D.

Healthcare terminology

This paper is written for technologists as a level 100-200 introduction focusing on SNOMED healthcare terminology and how Microsoft is able to enhance usage of terminologies via the expertise of the Microsoft partner, Health Language, Inc.

High-performance health plan workshop

A high-performance health plan workshop with Microsoft partner Accelare to help you identify opportunities for reducing complexity and costs.

How the intelligent enterprise delivers performance management

This Cap Gemini white paper outlines how leading organizations are investing in managing information to become masters in performance management.

IHE 2010 integration statement

Read the integration statement for Microsoft's XDS.b Registry & Repository.

Improving efficiency for public health and social services organizations

This white paper describes how public health and social services organizations are realizing efficiency gains through the use of technology that liberates data, improves collaboration, and provides a connected approach to citizen and patient care.

Improving efficiency in healthcare

This whitepaper discusses how healthcare providers are realizing efficiency gains through the use of technology that liberates data, improves collaboration, and provides a connected approach to patient care.