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• Microsoft Amalga Family Announced Today

  Today we are announcing Microsoft Amalga, the new family of Health Enterprise Systems. You can read the full press release on the microsoft.com web site. The products included in the Amalga family are: Microsoft Amalga. The new version of the product formerly known as Azyxxi, Amalga is part of a new software category called Unified Intelligence Systems that allows hospital enterprises to unlock the power of all their data sitting in isolated clinical, financial and administrative systems. Without replacing current systems, it offers an innovative way to capture, consolidate, store, access and quickly present data in meaningful ways for use by clinicians and executives of leading-edge institutions. Amalga is designed for hospitals and health systems that have invested in a diverse set of IT solutions. Microsoft Amalga Hospital Information System (HIS). The new version of the product previously named Hospital 2000, Amalga HIS is a state-of-the-art, fully integrated hospital information system designed for developing and emerging markets. Amalga HIS is built around an electronic medical record (EMR) with complete patient and bed management, laboratory, pharmacy, radiology information system and picture archiving and communication system (RIS/PACS), pathology, financial accounting, materials management, and human resource systems. Microsoft Amalga RIS/PACS. The new version of the product formerly known as GCS Amalga is now available as a stand-alone system as well as an integrated component of Amalga HIS. The integrated architecture means that a radiologist can use a single application to manipulate and study images and access the patient medical record. The workstation interface is optimized for radiologist workflow, including support for predefined templates, an intuitive report editor and voice recognition capabilities. Today we are also launching a revamped HSG web site and a new Amalga web site that contains detailed information about the three products. This was a tremendous team effort leading up to HIMSS in a couple of weeks where you will be able to see all three products live in the Microsoft booth #2247. If you wondered where I was since the last time I blogged, well now you have a clue ;-) The products included in the family are new versions of the products that we acquired over the last couple of years: Azyxxi --> Microsoft Amalga Global Care Solutions Hospital 2000 --> Amalga HIS Global Care Solutions Amalga RIS/PACS --> Amalga RIS/PACS If you're coming to HIMSS, stop by the booth and say Hi, I will be there the entire week :-) Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:52 PM from The Healthcare IT Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Azyxxi, HSG, News, Amalga

• Who Wants My Job?

  Readers of this blog know that I moved to a different role within Microsoft to support the product strategy for Azyxxi. We are looking for a replacement, or actually someone that would take the WW Health Technical Strategy to new heights :-) The product is listed on the microsoft.com/jobs with job code 214220. Have a look at the full job description on-line. We need someone with a great technical background (integration, web services, Microsoft platform), understanding of the healthcare industry and its dynamics, understanding of the healthcare standards and policy organizations, great oral and written communication skills and the ability to work on a very dynamic virtual team. Feel free to contact me directly via the contact form on my blog and apply for the job directly on the Microsoft web site. We have a few good candidates lined up already and we're looking to close this pretty quickly, so hurry up!! Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 7:42 PM from The Healthcare IT Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Microsoft and Global Care Solutions

  Last night we made another announcement that further demonstrates Microsoft's commitment to the Health industry worldwide. Microsoft to Acquire Innovative Healthcare Technology and Assets From Global Care Solutions Collaborative alliance with Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok will help bring enterprise-class health information system solutions to market around the world. Have a look at the web site and the video we have there to get a better understanding of what GCS provides: http://www.hospital2000.com/ Download the GCS video (11MB, right-click and save) At the same time we're also launching a minor update to the Azyxxi web site, so this is a good time to go check it out again :-) Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 10:57 AM from The Healthcare IT Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: HSG, News