Microsoft UK Health Blog
News and information about health-related IT for people who work in UK healthcare from the Microsoft UK Health team.
How enlightened is your application migration strategy?
As healthcare customers start to think seriously about moving away from Windows XP then application...
Author: HowieT Date: 03/12/2013
Cloud platform gives UK patients and GPs mobile access to healthcare information
EMIS Group, a leading supplier of healthcare software for GPs in the UK, wanted a more scalable and...
Author: HowieT Date: 03/05/2013
Can Healthcare realise the benefits of Microsoft Office 365?
Microsoft Office 365 has been available since June 2011 and in this time we have seen the number of...
Author: HowieT Date: 03/05/2013
Set free your health teams with the revolutionary Office 365
Flexible working (aka Anywhere Working) is a huge theme in UK healthcare. This covers a broad...
Author: HowieT Date: 02/27/2013
Leading Global Humanitarian Society Selects Cloud, Enhances Capacity and Response
Some great news which we thought you might be interested in from our worldwide colleagues...The...
Author: HowieT Date: 02/27/2013
Solutions for better patient interaction – how are you meeting the challenge?
In late January, Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell MP, Chair of the Health Select Committee, made the keynote...
Author: HowieT Date: 02/15/2013
HealthVault for iPhone v2 - now worldwide!
Since its launch in the United States last August, HealthVault for the iPhone has consistently been...
Author: HowieT Date: 02/05/2013
Office 365 - a must have for your device in healthcare (plus get a free trial!)
It's a fact many healthcare professionals are looking to use portable devices much more in their...
Author: HowieT Date: 01/18/2013
Healthcare innovation - free downloads from our partners
Here are some handy downloads about brilliant health IT solutions by our partners that we originally...
Author: HowieT Date: 01/09/2013
Patient Information Forum Guide to Personal Health Records highlights challenges ahead
The Patient Information Forum (PiF) has published a guide to Personal Health Records (PHRs),...
Author: HowieT Date: 01/03/2013
EHI Live Roundup: Tested technologies and a Partner on your doorstep
Microsoft was a significant exhibitor at EHI Live 2012; with new products, new routes to engaging...
Author: HowieT Date: 11/27/2012
easyJet transforms business model with cloud and Azure
Luton-based easyJet are differentiating themselves from other low cost airlines by bringing in a new...
Author: HowieT Date: 11/23/2012
Council revolutionises collaboration with services using new business management software
Plymouth City Council is facing a big social challenge - a 16-year life expectancy gap between the...
Author: HowieT Date: 11/15/2012
EHI Live partners share their thoughts on camera!
Last week the Microsoft in Health Team visited the two-day EHI Live event at Birmingham's NEC. As...
Author: HowieT Date: 11/13/2012
Increased efficiency, improved patient care and provider accountability
With less than 24 hours left until EHI Live 2012 kicks off in Birmingham, it's time for our partner...
Author: HowieT Date: 11/05/2012
Depleted financial resources doesn’t have to equal depleted patient care
Ben Jones, NHS Client Director at Trustmarque, explains how the NHS can maximise efficiency and...
Author: HowieT Date: 11/02/2012
EHI excitement for OCSL
We have another of our great partners, OCSL, blogging for us today about their thoughts on the EHI...
Author: HowieT Date: 10/31/2012
Why Cloud, why Now?
As part of our look ahead to EHI Live in November, today's guest blog post is by Marcel Bonfrer of...
Author: HowieT Date: 10/30/2012
Winning the security war on a new battlefront: medical devices
From ward to theatre, the NHS is increasingly populated with connected, specialist devices; and...
Author: HowieT Date: 10/25/2012
Enterprise collaboration – what does good look like?
Today we bring you a post by another Microsoft partner - attending the EHI Live 2012 event in...
Author: HowieT Date: 10/23/2012
Clinician-led IT projects are a winner (partner post by Enline)
In the run up to EHI Live, we are giving some of our partners the chance to post on our blog about...
Author: HowieT Date: 10/18/2012
Coming soon - partner posts!
Happy Friday everyone! Just a quick posting today to let you all know that we have asked some of our...
Author: HowieT Date: 10/12/2012
Discover strategies and solutions at EHI Live
EHI Live is the annual conference where CTOs, clinical technologists, DoH and Trust representatives...
Author: HowieT Date: 10/05/2012
Deploying Windows 8 within Microsoft
This is a guest post by Patrick O’Rourke, director within the strategy, planning and...
Author: HowieT Date: 10/03/2012
What's cloud computing all about? We have the perfect guide...
In the middle of the 1990s the Web emerged and a whole generation of Internet-facing Web...
Author: HowieT Date: 09/21/2012
Healthcare Provider Improves Customer Service & Stock Visibility with CRM Solution
Many companies would love to boast about a 200% increase in productivity but this Evolution Homecare...
Author: HowieT Date: 09/18/2012
OEMs Introduce Innovative New PC Designs for Windows 8
Hi, I’m Nick Parker and I lead the OEM Division at Microsoft. Many of our partners have been...
Author: HowieT Date: 09/07/2012
NHS trust pilots first online mental health therapy service with unified communications
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust in the north of England wanted to offer...
Author: HowieT Date: 08/29/2012
Channel Shift in Public Services: Have we reached the tipping point?
According to the latest data available from SOCITM, two-thirds of customer contacts with local...
Author: HowieT Date: 08/23/2012
Side Project Turns Kinect into a Virtual Seeing-Eye Dog
Kinectacles, a Garage project from Microsoft India, aims to use Kinect's depth camera to help the...
Author: HowieT Date: 08/14/2012
EMAS uses Lync teleconferencing to accelerate service transformation
For anyone who still thinks teleconferencing is a feelgood application with little underlying value,...
Author: HowieT Date: 08/10/2012
DocCom network seminar - video interviews
On 9th July a group of healthcare professionals from across the UK gathered in Central London to...
Author: HowieT Date: 07/14/2012