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News and information about health-related IT for people who work in UK healthcare from the Microsoft UK Health team.

Learn how to clean your Surface Pro 3 for use in a clinical environment

Health care providers all over the world are using the Surface Pro 3 to spend change the way they...

Date: 11/26/2014

Watch how Operation Smile is bringing more children “from hopelessness to possibility”

This post is by Carrie Landry. Over the past few years, I’ve been fortunate enough to see how...

Date: 11/06/2014

Vote on the next great health app at Future Decoded

Health care might just be the most exciting segment of the enterprise app market. Sure, apps in...

Date: 10/24/2014

The history of the World Wide Web is all about finding better ways to transmit information; the...

Date: 10/23/2014

5 free events for IT Pros looking to master the cloud

Cloud tools are rewriting the rules faster than most IT departments can keep up. Whether...

Date: 10/21/2014

East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub finds flexibility – and savings – in the cloud

When the East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub healthcare organization grew frustrated by...

Date: 10/15/2014

Discover the value of tablets with this ROI calculator

We’ve been told that tablets are consumer toys and laptops are boring, bog-standard tech....

Date: 10/14/2014

Using Yammer to deliver informal learning

This post by the Department of Health's Dave Briggs originally appeared on Gov.UK's Digital Health...

Date: 10/01/2014

Focus on Windows Apps for Health: NHSGiveBlood gives donors control

This post is part of an occasional series about health-focused apps for Windows 8.1 and Windows...

Date: 09/23/2014

Microsoft CityNext: How Belfast Health and Social Care Trust is saving £1 million by making decisions faster

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust employs about 20,000 staff members at more than 100 physical...

Date: 09/09/2014

FAQ: What does CPA certification of Microsoft's VPN mean for your office?

Earlier this year, Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Azure were granted OFFICIAL accreditation by...

Date: 09/05/2014

Medical image archiving in the cloud? Consider the 4 S’s

One of the most compelling arguments for storing digital data in the cloud is medical imaging. It is...

Date: 08/28/2014

See Satya Nadella make his first UK appearance at Future Decoded

Have you heard the news? On 10 November, Satya Nadella will be giving his first-ever UK speech as...

Date: 08/21/2014

Why your meetings are broken – and what you can do to fix them

Meetings can be the best part of your day -- or the absolute worst. They can be great tools for...

Date: 08/20/2014

Focus on Windows Apps for health: See inside the human body with Essential Anatomy 3

This post is part of an occasional series about health-focused apps for Windows 8.1 and Windows...

Date: 08/20/2014

Get Online @ Home offers free PCs with 12-month broadband signup to combat the digital divide

It’s not hard to see how the digital divide is hampering the UK’s economic growth and...

Date: 08/18/2014

Could you do your job from a bus all day? This #BusWorker is going to try!

Conversations about flexible working too often fall into the trap of using "anywhere working" as a...

Date: 08/15/2014

All she wanted was to see her baby – luckily the hospital found a way to bring them together

Yeilin wanted nothing more than to see her new-born daughter Kaitlyn. But medical complications were...

Date: 08/07/2014

Civil Service Live 2014: Una O'Brien and the challenges ahead for UK health care

Civil Service Live 2014 gave health care workers a rare chance to hear directly from some of the...

Date: 08/01/2014

Focus on Windows Apps for health: Create a behavioural record for children with autism with ABPathfinder’s Parent Pathway

This post is part of an occasional series about health-focused apps for Windows 8.1 and Windows...

Date: 07/29/2014

Civil Service Live 2014 – Learn to fight “Infobesity” and reimagine your organisation with Dave Coplin

The numbers don’t lie. Workers are positively drowning in data. But at the same time,...

Date: 07/11/2014

Video: Watch what happens when staff at Seattle Children’s Hospital get their hands on the new Surface Pro 3

Surface Pro 3 will launch later this summer in the UK. But at Seattle Children’s Hospital, the...

Date: 07/10/2014

Civil Service Live 2014 – Discover what a day of smarter working really looks like

The way we work is changing and technology is allowing us to work when, where and how we choose....

Date: 07/03/2014

Everything fit for purpose: A new approach to device standardisation

Microsoft’s Richard Shipton knows a thing or two about public sector IT, having spent time...

Date: 06/25/2014

Watch a woman hear unaided for the first time after a life-changing operation

Sarah Churman was born with 85 bi-lateral decibel loss, which meant she could barely hear at all...

Date: 06/24/2014

FAQ: What Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 OFFICIAL accreditation means for your organisation

Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 now hold the UK Government’s recently launched...

Date: 06/11/2014

Microsoft’s mobility platform means business

This post is by John Delaney, Associate Vice President, European Mobility, IDC. Microsoft’s...

Date: 06/06/2014

Just what the doctor ordered—Surface Pro 3

Some of you may be wondering why I’ve said so little about the newest member of our Surface...

Date: 06/03/2014

West Midlands Ambulance Service deploys Office 365 in pioneering G-Cloud deal

Innovative communication technologies allow the public to live and work faster than ever before. Yet...

Date: 05/30/2014

Watch how flexible working transformed Locala Community Partnerships

More than 400,000 people rely on Locala Community Partnerships to provide NHS community services in...

Date: 05/23/2014

The Rise of the Humans: How to outsmart the digital deluge

We all have these moments, when the digital deluge appears to sweep us away: the email inbox is...

Date: 05/21/2014

How can we identify and unlock skill sets within public sector organisations?

This post is by Suzy Dean, CEO of EasySharePoint. There’s a wealth of talent within public...

Date: 05/15/2014

Microsoft CityNext: Getting to grips with managing multi-agency outcomes in social care

Social services are rarely the responsibility of a single office. In the city of the future,...

Date: 05/15/2014

Calling all nurses: Microsoft wants to help share your story

Each week this blog strives to bring readers the most interesting news and opinions from the world...

Date: 05/12/2014

Microsoft City Next: 10 essentials for successful mobile application development

By Declan Grogan, Managing Director, NDL Software Mobile ‘line of business’ applications...

Date: 05/09/2014

Microsoft CityNext: Examining the role of population health in designing 21st century cities

Health will play an essential role in the evolution of cities. High-density population areas face...

Date: 05/06/2014

Microsoft and Barnardo’s team up for new app to combat child sexual exploitation

Child sexual exploitation is a growing problem. The ubiquity of camera phones and mobile messaging...

Date: 05/01/2014

Microsoft CityNext: Turning data into best practices at a local level

If you wanted to find out how bad weather was affecting instances of respiratory disease in your...

Date: 04/25/2014

Free event: Learn to find the insights hiding in your organisations’ data

You’ve always known there were insights hiding in your organisations’ data. There are...

Date: 04/09/2014

Getting started with HealthVault: Bing Health & Fitness App

Every day there seems to be a new diet or exercise regime promising brilliant results -- but where...

Date: 04/04/2014

What makes an organisation “brilliant”? Find out with Microsoft and IMGROUP

The cloud is more than just a great way to lower your organisations’ IT costs. Cloud tools...

Date: 04/03/2014

Project Sienna lets you build an app today with no code and no cost

Have you ever tried to learn a foreign language? Did you find it a little frustrating? Did you find...

Date: 04/02/2014

Nice Guidance comes to Windows 8, thanks to Cloud2

Where can you go to get evidence-based, best-in-class guidance for promoting wellbeing and...

Date: 03/26/2014

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