Microsoft solutions for healthcare and life sciences
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Healthcare provider solutions
Collaborative healthcare
Through Collaborative Health, Microsoft and its partners give healthcare and life science professionals tools that streamline the way they enter, access, and share data, resulting in improved health at reduced costs. As a pioneer in the field, Microsoft understands how people use digital information technologies in their daily lives and has applied that knowledge to the issues faced by healthcare providers, health plans, and life sciences organizations.
Healthcare portals
Microsoft healthcare portal solutions help to provide the foundation for streamlined and efficient information sharing. These solutions help healthcare professionals work together effectively, respond to issues quickly, and deliver high-quality care at a low overall cost.
Caregiver collaboration
Clear communication is central to the practice of safe and effective medicine. Good communication improves compliance with treatment plans, raises patient satisfaction, and enhances the quality of care.
Business intelligence
To survive in today's business environment, healthcare organizations must respond and adapt to changing requirements with speed and accuracy. To help healthcare organizations achieve new levels of business agility, the Microsoft Collaborative Health Initiative includes business analysis and business intelligence tools for caregivers and administrators.
Clinical and administrative forms automation
Forms processing is extremely expensive for healthcare providers. According to industry statistics, 70 percent of all healthcare transactions require manual processes. The administrative cost of a paper filing can be as much as $20 US. As a result, administrative spending accounts for 25 percent of the cost of healthcare, one of the highest rates for any industry.
Microsoft Office reference implementation for clinical forms
The Microsoft Office reference implementation for clinical forms illustrates how Microsoft technology can help emergency room staff collect, retrieve, and share patient information better. Solutions based on the Microsoft Office reference implementation can improve clinical staff productivity by replacing paper records with electronic forms and collaboration software.
Electronic Medical Records/ Clinical Information Systems
Microsoft and its partners can assist healthcare providers in developing electronic record storage systems that help integrate data from a wide range of systems. These solutions improve collaboration between people and departments, which ultimately leads to increased productivity and quality of service. Through these solutions, physicians and other staff can make full use of data quickly and easily.
Infrastructure integration
Microsoft and its partners can help healthcare organizations solve infrastructure integration challenges through Microsoft Collaborative Health. This initiative gives healthcare organizations an easy way to manage integration, more cost-effective methods for communicating information, fast methods for developing and implementing interfaces among systems, and a cost-effective way to take advantage of the Health Level 7 (HL7) standard.
Health plan solutions
Knowledge Driven Health Plans
Knowledge Driven Health Plans is a Microsoft vision and strategy to bring together Microsoft products, technologies, and partner solutions to address key challenges in healthcare. These challenges include rising costs, changing client needs, increasing fragmentation of services, and government regulations.
BizTalk Accelerator for HIPAA
With the BizTalk Accelerator for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), you get the help you need to implement a Microsoft BizTalk Server infrastructure customized to support the requirements of HIPAA. BizTalk Accelerator for HIPAA includes tools to achieve HIPAA transactional compliance through open standards–based communications and system interoperability.
Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence (BI) solutions using Microsoft technology will offer health plans a flexible and easy-to-use (BI) platform that will help anticipate trends and extend from the data center to the desktop to mobile devices. Use this page to learn more about these solutions and find a Microsoft partner that can build a solution that fits your company’s needs.
Business Process and Integration
Solutions for Business Process and Integration will help enable people to leverage the leadership position of Microsoft solutions in workflow, Web services, services-oriented architecture (SOA), and business-process automation. Use this page to learn more about these solutions and find the Microsoft partner that can provide a solution that meets your company's needs.
Care Management Showcase solution for the Microsoft Office System
The Care Management Showcase solution can be extended to case management teams as a powerful portal and task manager. By taking advantage of the intuitive user interface and familiarity of the Microsoft Office System, case management teams can work better together naturally, organize information in one place, and complete the most relevant tasks fast with few errors.
Collaborative Care and Wellness Management
Collaborative Care and Wellness Management is an integrated approach to improving health, controlling costs, increasing productivity, and reducing absenteeism across the continuum of care. It encompasses everything from disease management to case management, utilization review, wellness programs, and behavioral health.
Customer Experience solutions for health plan companies
Customer Experience solutions, including technology designed to help the people in your organization deploy flexible and approachable applications that guide consumers through the healthcare marketplace.
Enterprise-wide project management for health plans
Enterprise-wide project management solutions help to give people in health plans visibility, insight, and the control of project-based work they need to optimize business performance. Managing multiple projects as a collective portfolio helps to ensure that health plan efforts are spent only on activities that contribute to the bottom line and redirect those that don't. And because these enterprise project management (EPM) solutions are based on standard Microsoft technologies, they are readily deployed and managed, familiar to end users, and reusable in multiple business contexts for greater agility and maximum return on investment (ROI).
Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Sarbanes-Oxley
SOX solutions based on the Microsoft Office System help facilitate regulatory compliance and sustainable corporate governance by enhancing visibility over financial processes and internal controls. Specifically, SOX requirements are addressed by Office capabilities that enable document and information management, process and workflow automation, communication and collaboration, and monitoring and reporting.
Risk management and compliance for health plans
Risk management and compliance solutions based on Microsoft technology can help your organization reduce regulatory compliance risk and complexity. You can improve information protection and help provide the internal controls needed to meet HIPAA requirements, Sarbanes-Oxley provisions, and state-specific regulations.
Life sciences solutions
Microsoft Knowledge Driven Life Sciences
The Microsoft vision for the life sciences industry offers a technology infrastructure that reduces complexity, streamlines information flow, and improves productivity. Designed to enable the next generation of life sciences solutions, Knowledge Driven Life Sciences helps pharmaceutical professionals streamline operations and improve their decision making.
Drug discovery
Drug discovery solutions based on the Microsoft Knowledge Driven Life Sciences framework can provide researchers with a single, comprehensive view of internal research and external literature, making it significantly easier to achieve target identification.
Drug development
Pharmaceutical companies face significant pressure to eliminate inefficiencies that add time and complexity to development processes. Microsoft technologies provide tools that speed data entry and automatically help to ensure that electronic data is verified and completed throughout every stage of the clinical trial process.
Manufacturing and supply chain
Microsoft Knowledge Driven Life Sciences provides a framework for integrating drug formulation data with plant capability information. This enables pharmaceutical researchers to develop chemical, manufacturing, and production models that can be used to define optimized manufacturing processes that reduce production costs.
Sales and marketing effectiveness
Pharmaceutical companies must reduce costs, streamline research, and market their products more effectively. To help them meet these requirements, Microsoft Knowledge Driven Life Sciences provides a practical vision and a solutions framework for using new technology innovations to better integrate systems and information.
Productivity and collaboration
The latest generation of collaboration products and tools from Microsoft are already helping life sciences organizations transform the endless flood of information into usable medical and therapeutic knowledge, making it easier for researchers to access information from multiple systems. The Microsoft Office System offers integrated technologies and applications that help streamline processes, enhance productivity, and facilitate collaboration.
Connected systems
The latest generation of Microsoft technologies can help life sciences organizations integrate and connect their wide range of information systems to access and share clinical trial data stored in multiple systems. Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows Server System integrated server software provide a powerful platform to more easily integrate disparate systems. Microsoft technologies can help life sciences organizations reduce IT complexity and costs while improving the flow of information to research professionals and managers.
Mobility
The latest technology from Microsoft provides life sciences organizations with a solid foundation for mobile solutions. Microsoft offers a new generation of portable devices including the Microsoft Windows-based Tablet PC, Pocket PC, and Smartphone. These devices provide life sciences professionals (who traditionally rely on notebook PCs, spiral notebooks, or notepads) with immediate access to important information, no matter where they are.
Security
Microsoft is committed to helping life sciences organizations get more secure and stay more secure in several ways. Microsoft can help organizations tighten system security through perimeter and host protection systems. The company can assist in the deployment of the latest relevant security patches. Microsoft also offers technologies for managing digital identities that reduce security risks while lowering IT costs.
Enterprise compliance
Enterprise compliance solutions are enterprise-wide information management and publishing systems for life sciences organizations. These solutions help organizations meet the complex compliance requirements of regulatory agencies.
Life sciences business solution
The Life Sciences Business Solution helps life sciences organizations manage a full range of important business functions. The solution helps life sciences professionals manage several complex processes including manufacturing and distribution, sales and marketing, and analytics reporting as well as document compliance of complex government regulations. The solution is flexible and can grow to meet the organization's future needs.
Life sciences solutions for the Microsoft Office System
Many leading life sciences companies are solving critical business problems using solutions built with the Microsoft Office System. Read about the solutions that are helping organizations transform their businesses by taking advantage of the Microsoft Office products they already own and use every day
