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Extending and coordinating care with Unified Communication: The next wave is here
Bill Crounse, MD Jul 31, 2007 at 10:43 AM 0 Bill Crounse, MD

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Ten years ago I co-founded a company with the aim to provide web-based medical information, secure messaging and virtual visits between patients and their personal physicians. Working in partnership with Microsoft we developed technology that was well ahead of its time, and also well ahead of the market's...
Help people around the world, win fame and prizes for your healthcare solution
Bill Crounse, MD Jul 23, 2007 at 11:45 AM 0 Bill Crounse, MD

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Are you a healthcare industry solution vendor? Do you want worldwide recognition for your company's good work and the solutions you build using Microsoft technologies? Would you like an opportunity to win prizes including a roundtrip for two to Paris and a guest spot to judge at the Imagine Cup 2008?...
Your opportunity to help change the world in healthcare: Check out new RFP's from Microsoft Research
Bill Crounse, MD Jul 20, 2007 at 2:50 PM 0 Bill Crounse, MD

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My colleagues at Microsoft Research asked me to spread the word about an announcement they made on Monday during their External Research & Program’s Faculty Summit. Faculty Summit is the premier event hosted by ER&P for academic researchers and professors to meet with Microsoft researchers and...
A Common User Interface to Clinical Systems
Bill Crounse, MD Jul 13, 2007 at 5:47 PM 0 Bill Crounse, MD

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On October 21st, 2005, I wrote an entry on this Blog about the need for a more common and intuitive user interface to clinical information systems. Here's part of that entry:
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Jim Lynch, R.N. is quoted by Health Data Management's on-line news service...
Arkansas Children's Hospital: IT Innovations Enhancing the Care of Hospitalized Children
Bill Crounse, MD Jul 11, 2007 at 11:26 AM 0 Bill Crounse, MD

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Every so often we do a program in my House Calls for Healthcare Professionals series of audio and video-casts that really seems to hit the mark in demonstrating the value of Microsoft technologies in the healthcare industry. I want to draw your attention to one such program.
Arkansas Children’s Hospital...
Medstory debuts on MSN Health and Fitness
Bill Crounse, MD Jul 09, 2007 at 2:23 PM 0 Bill Crounse, MD

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Back in April I posted information on HealthBlog about Medstory, the medical search company that had recently been acquired by Microsoft. I interviewed Medstory founder and CEO, Dr. Alain Rappaport, who I have known for nearly a decade. Alain and I first met while I was co-founding a venture-backed...
Age and culture as impediments to the adoption of healthcare IT
Bill Crounse, MD Jun 28, 2007 at 9:09 PM 0 Bill Crounse, MD

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A friend sent me a link to an article written for SearchCIO.com by senior editor, Kate Evans-Corriea. Ms. Evans-Corriea's article entitled "Age Does Matter" reflects on what she says was a common theme at Gartner's recent Symposium ITxpo. That theme is perhaps best captured in a quote from...
A Pediatric Hospital Bedside Patient Entertainment & Education System: Microsoft Media Center + Xbox
Bill Crounse, MD Jun 26, 2007 at 1:54 PM 0 Bill Crounse, MD

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Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Every so often I come across organizations and people that truly blow me away. Pediatric hospitals have always been known for innovative ideas in the care of their young patients. So, it comes as no surprise that a pediatric hospital would rise to the occasion to better...
Commodity software; the next wave in contemporary hospital information systems
Bill Crounse, MD Jun 20, 2007 at 8:30 PM 0 Bill Crounse, MD

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Hospital de São Sebastião

Earlier this year, I shared the amazing story of Torrevieja Salud Hospital in the Valencia Region of Spain. Hospital IT staff at Torrevieja Salud had built a very robust, end-to-end hospital information system using commodity, off-the-shelf developer tools, software, and...
Microsoft Azyxxi Update: First customer and development partner
Bill Crounse, MD Jun 12, 2007 at 3:56 PM 0 Bill Crounse, MD

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Everywhere I go, I get questions about Microsoft's acquisition of a technology and company known as Azyxxi from MedStar Health in Washington, D.C.. Last summer, shortly after the acquisition took place, I invited company founders and Microsoft executives to join me in an audio-cast discussion about...