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Integrated healthcare data supports the efficient exchange of security-enhanced information and helps patients to better control their healthcare information. With real-time, up-to-date patient information, you can quickly turn information into critical knowledge that can help you make better decisions and improve patient outcomes. Microsoft technology can help securely integrate all of your health data, making it easily accessible to your staff and patients.

Microsoft Amalga provides quick access to health data from multiple sources, providing health organizations with the right information at the right time to make more-informed and timely decisions.

• Consolidate and enrich data. Combine information, regardless of source data standards, into comprehensive views, from patient views to location views to population views, to make data more useful and easier to understand and use.
• Tailor information to fit your needs. Customize views to help you manage queries efficiently and better understand processes.
• Maintain data ownership. Collect real-time information from clinical settings, as well as claims information from the state, in one place while maintaining data ownership at the source.
• Support public health analysis. When appropriate, remove personally identifiable patient information easily so data can be used by public health organizations to identify patterns and trends.

Microsoft HealthVault offers a central repository for health information across the spectrum of healthcare.

• Centralize patient health information. Patients can gather, access, and control their own information easily.
• Enhance provider understanding of patient health. Patients can, at their discretion, share their information according to their own needs, so they can play a more active role in managing their own healthcare and provide more comprehensive information to their health care providers.

Microsoft Connected Health Platform provides core services that help HIEs to integrate, collaborate, and share information securely. Built on core Microsoft solutions, including BizTalk, SQL Server, SharePoint, Office, and .NET, the connected health platform provides HIEs with a technology foundation on which they can deliver a flexible, interoperable platform for connecting and collaborating across care providers, payers, and state agencies.