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Winners of the 2016 Microsoft Health Innovation Awards 

The winners of the 2016 Microsoft Health Innovation Awards were announced at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS16). Each year, Microsoft acknowledges innovative health organizations and their technology solution partners that are using Microsoft technology to improve healthcare for patients and communities while meeting rigorous compliance and security standards.

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Women to watch in healthcare IT 

I feel proud to be highlighting a few of the the smart, driven, and talented women in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) industry. I have personally worked with several of these women, and I know them to be not only incredibly successful in their careers, but also amazing, intelligent, fun (and funny) people.

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Azure Blockchain as a Service Update #5 

STRATO Azure’s Blockchain as a Service welcomes its first certified offering from Blockapps: STRATO. The STRATO offering is a single-node blockchain instance, which acts as a developer sandbox for testing Ethereum blockchain applications and offers the STRATO RESTful API for connecting applications to private, semi-private (consortium) and public Ethereum blockchains.

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A Worldwide Standard 

We hear from BIAN’s Hans Tesselaar about the progress the banking standards association is making to develop the most complete banking industry framework.

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It’s time for a security intervention in healthcare 

At Microsoft we recognize that it isn’t easy to balance the security and integrity of healthcare data with the need for clinicians, administrators, patients and payers to quickly get the information they need to deliver prompt, lifesaving care. That’s why we’re starting a new series of regular blog posts about security in health.