Microsoft Business Insights

Subscribe | Chat with a Representative | View as webpage

FEBRUARY 2014

Feature Story Top Stories Events Other News

Join us at the Microsoft Health Users Manage Your Profile Group Forum 2014 Help us, help you.

Sunday, February 23, 2014 The best way to ensure the 11:30 AM - 4:30 PM ET content in this newsletter is Orange County Convention Center | Room 414 ABC relevant to you and your business is to make sure that Join us for the Microsoft Health Users Group Forum at HIMSS14. Hear your profile is complete. from thought leaders from leading healthcare organizations that are shaping innovation and improving care delivery. Update Your Profile This complimentary, half-day forum features the latest innovations in health delivered jointly by Microsoft in Health executives, provider organizations and industry leaders. From delivering comprehensive data Learn more about approaches for health to achieving outcome-based patient experiences Microsoft in Health across solutions and devices & apps, these sessions will give a kick-start to your HIMSS14 experience.

Speakers include:

Steve Aylward General Manager, Health and Life Sciences, Microsoft Christine Bessler CIO and VP of Information Technology, ProHealth Care Install these great Scott Helton Windows 8 Apps Director, Imaging Applications, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Dr. Nick Patel, MD CDC's health info app Medical Director, Midlands International Medicine, Ambulatory Medical Informatics, Palmetto Health ePharmaSolutions PatientLive Jason Pomaski AVP of Technology, Community Healthcare Network Johnson & Johnson's Digital Heidi Rozmiarek Health Scorecard Manager of Business Intelligence & Enterprise Applications, Meriter Next Docs Trial Exchange Health Services Dr. Dennis Schmuland, MD, FAAFP NextGen Healthcare's Chief Health Strategy Officer, US Health & Life Sciences, Microsoft MedicineCabinet iLink's Patient Engagement Mi-Co's Mi-Forms Register Now Seismic Solutions' Content in Context

hug_default.html[4/11/2014 10:20:37 AM] Microsoft Business Insights

Three Windows 8.1 Customer Favorites

The mobile technology market certainly keeps evolving - and we're all learning a lot along the way. One of the most important things we've learned is that to truly meet the needs of mobile health professionals, it takes the right combination of hardware, apps, and user experience. So it's very cool to see all the pieces of the puzzle coming together. With the ever-increasing number of Windows devices and apps out there, clinicians can finally have not only a great mobile experience, but also the enterprise-class functionality and security they need to truly support their work.

As the market continues to progress, we are learning the most from our customers about which capabilities best meet mobile health needs. Here are three of our health customers' favorite recent discoveries with Windows devices:

Read the full blog back to top

How Healthvault Helps People Like Me Take Control of My Health

If asked, most people can provide a pretty accurate overview of their financial situation within minutes. However, if asked for an overview of their health situation-such as their latest lab results, when they're due for their next preventive check-up, etc.-it would take most of us days to pull that information together. That's because our health data is usually scattered across various doctors' offices, labs, pharmacies, insurance companies, and more.

And the trouble with not having a good sense of our health situation is that it often means we end up going to the doctor for symptoms or conditions that could have been prevented. Similar to managing our finances, if we stay on top of our health status, we're better able to make positive behavior changes that can head off problems down the road.

That's where Microsoft HealthVault can help. HealthVault is a trusted place for people to gather, store, use, and share health information online-whether that information is collected at home, the doctor's office, pharmacy, gym, or anywhere in between.

Here are four ways that I use HealthVault to better manage my own and my family's health...

Read the full blog back to top

Training and Events

FEB Predictive Population Management Webinar

04 In a world where population health is managed in the rear view mirror, predictive technology and big data are disrupting the status quo. Join us to learn how predictive analytics technology and real-time data streams are transforming the way we look at population health and rewriting the rules of patient engagement.

FEB Transforming Email, Communication and Collaboration Through a Highly Available, Secure, Compliant Cloud Platform Webinar hug_default.html[4/11/2014 10:20:37 AM] Microsoft Business Insights

18 Healthcare Organizations suffer from communication inefficiency, and their IT teams are under pressure to modernize communication platforms, enable mobility, and maintain high availability for mission critical workloads like email, while maintaining compliance with security and privacy regulations governing patient data. Join this session to learn how Community Health Network serving New York city leveraged Microsoft's Office 365 platform to transform their communication and collaboration platform, enabling them to maintain operations during Hurricane Sandy.

FEB YOU'RE INVITED! Visual Studio 2013 Launch Event

19 Please join us at this event where we will discuss the value and returns of Modern App development in the context of real business scenarios.

In an era where every app must work seamlessly on every device, all the time, Visual Studio 2013 provides modern tooling and services that allow you to transform the user experience across all Windows devices. By allowing teams of every size to collaborate, Visual Studio 2013 will help you deliver continuous value, with agility and scale.

WHEN: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:30am-4:00pm

WHERE: Sacramento Secretary of State Building 1500 11th Street Auditorium Sacramento, CA 95814

*Lunch will not be provided

Notice to all U.S. government employees (including Military and Public Education personnel): Due to applicable government gift and ethics rules, Microsoft cannot provide government employees with "giveaways" of Microsoft products or other items of value. In an effort to comply with these rules, further information on Microsoft's compliance with U.S. government gift and ethics rules can be found here. Please be sure to prepare accordingly for your attendance and participation.

TechEd 2014: Are You In?

May 12-13, 2014

Register now for TechEd 2014, the premier Microsoft conference for IT pros and developers. Dive into a broad range of learning opportunities on the latest Microsoft technologies, tools, platforms, and services. Connect with industry experts and peers May 12-15 in Houston.

Realizing the Vision and Value of hug_default.html[4/11/2014 10:20:37 AM] Microsoft Business Insights

Contextual BI for the Masses

Business intelligence (BI) has rapidly become a mission critical necessity for healthcare organizations, and is now foundational to the delivery of value-based care including: reducing costs while increasing quality, managing population health, and improving process efficiency and patient outcomes.

It is not uncommon to see healthcare organizations unknowingly restrained by their limited understanding of the potential of mining BI data to support front line clinical staff and finance professionals.

Challenges that existed merely a few years ago - acquiring BI analysts, mining data, crunching and presenting data - no longer exist for organizations at the forefront of BI. Other, broader challenges now exist in leveraging data as an enterprise asset: how to deliver on the vision of producing contextual BI organization-wide, getting the right data to the right person at the right time. To make good on such a vision, an organization must have systems in place to bring forth highly precise, intuitive and actionable insights that teams and individuals need to efficiently improve the healthcare delivery.