Five steps to innovative, human-centered solutions for healthcare
Learn how to apply design thinking to whatever challenge your health organization faces.
Microsoft Industry Blogs: Healthcare
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Bridging the gap between AI and medicine: Claude in Microsoft Foundry advances capabilities for healthcare and life sciences customers
These enhancements offer advanced reasoning, agentic workflows, and model intelligence purpose built for some of the industry’s most demanding real-world use cases.
Brazilian hospital reduces length of stay and mortality rates with analytics insights
Brazilian hospital uses advanced analytics to help improve care and serve more people who desperately need its services.
Johns Hopkins joins forces with Microsoft to improve critical care
Intelligent technology paired healthcare expertise empowers clinicians to focus more on patients and drive positive outcomes.
Real-world examples of patient empowerment
Learn how EMEA health professionals empower patients and extend care with modern tools.
Transforming healthcare of the future with Office 2016
With the new Office, health professionals can work more efficiently together for better patient outcomes.
Real-world examples of instant care collaboration with icomedias, Rapid Circle
Learn how EMEA health professionals collaborate in real time with mobile, cloud solutions.
On a mission to heal smiles
The work that Operation Smile does to heal smiles gives children and their families their lives back.
5 unexpected prejudices faced by nurses
When I was first confronted by these unexpected prejudices, I was unassuming—just observing and quietly wondering, “This doesn’t seem right…” Eight years and 156 credit hours later, I’ve become a spitfire, not missing a chance to stand up for myself or my colleagues. Although these invisible prejudices ache, they have shaped me (and many other nurses) into fierce advocates poised for reformation.
What will be the Uber for healthcare?
Technology has already disrupted many other industries.
Telehealth proves it’s good for what ails home healthcare
Telehealth is often touted as a potential cure for much of what ails healthcare today. At Indiana’s Franciscan Visiting Nurse Service (FVNS), a division of Franciscan Alliance, the technology is proving that it really is all that.
Nursing knowledge: Big Data Science Conference
At the third annual Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science conference, held June 3–5, 2015, presenters reported the results of 10 projects influencing the creation and use of shareable and comparable nursing data.
Let’s get personal – best practices for reaching the health consumer through digital channels
As a result of reform and the consumer-driven healthcare marketplace, it’s crucial to engage people in personalized ways via the digital channels they’re accustomed to using.