The Connected Health Platform is the Microsoft technology offering of tools, solution accelerators, and prescriptive architecture, design, and deployment guidance for e-Health solutions built on the open extensible and agile principles of the Microsoft Connected Health Framework Architecture and Design Blueprint.
The aim of the Microsoft Connected Health Platform is to provide healthcare-specific guidance and tools to help healthcare organizations configure a standard desktop and server infrastructure that is easy to manage, and to provide solution accelerators to aid the end user in their day-to-day tasks.
The content you are downloading is part of a large collection of technology offerings aligned with the Microsoft Connected Health Platform to help you optimize information and communication technology infrastructures for health organizations.
Portfolio of Guidance
This complete portfolio of tools, guidance, and solution accelerators available on the Connected Health Platform are categorized by the areas below and are available on the Connected Health Platform guidance page.
Business Value
The business value documents show how following the guidance has enabled healthcare organizations to increase their infrastructure maturity and save time and money.
Desktop
These tools and guidance provide a proven process for deploying and managing client PCs in a healthcare organization, building on the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008.
Knowledge Worker
The aim of these tools is to enable improved personal and team productivity and effective decision making by connecting the healthcare worker with people, processes, information and expertise. The Microsoft Connected Health Platform solution accelerators provide a starting point to address common collaboration requirements in healthcare organizations. The solution accelerators software, administrators guide, release notes and other supporting information can be accessed by using the navigation bar located to the left of this text. There is also a virtual environment available from Microsoft Public Sector Online Demo/Labs, which you can access to learn about and, if needed, demo the Connected Health Platform solution accelerators.
Office
This guidance assists with deployment of Microsoft Office, including migration from previous versions, in a healthcare organization.
Security
Authentication of users, encryption of data and protection against malware (for example viruses, spyware, rootkits, worms) all combine to provide a more secure and more mature healthcare infrastructure.
Server Build
These guides enable healthcare organizations to deploy physical and virtualized server platforms in a consistent and repeatable fashion, the uses of which include document management and collaboration platforms for knowledge workers.
Systems Management
The aim of the systems management guidance is to reduce the ongoing costs of desktop management and operations, software installation and software update management (including antivirus signature updates).
