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Windows and Office success to Microsoft's earnings basin bowl is full, the situation is more complex in the medical field, Microsoft still could not conceal his ambition has always been rock after the fat and self-confidence.
Little Europe a week ago had an attack of gastroenteritis. For the busy small Europe, the intolerable is not the gastrointestinal symptoms, but the tedious queuing, registration, such as penicillin sensitivity test program to see the doctor.
In fact, the medical information system is relatively mature in the United States, see the doctor is simplified, and health services which rightly are also penetrated into everyday life. Microsoft's October 2007 launch of the application of an imaginative confirmed Bill? Gates predicted: "Customers are expected through electronic means and lawyers, dentists, accountants and other professionals to meet the schedule and arrangements for the exchange of documents." in the network platform called HealthVault, as long as the online application a personal health account, you can on-line to protect their health records. In addition to personal health information storage and exchange of health information also allows the search. for E-mail account, such as registration as simple and free.
HealthVault personal information as a safe, an open interface with third-party equipment manufacturers and insurance companies to do data exchange between the users decide to upload content, and to whom access to information, Microsoft picking up the surface flag, means "to obtain medical help for credit card in ATM machines as easy withdrawals." followed by Google, launched an online health care business GoogleHealth, challenges to Microsoft, this is the Internet predators and the software giant in the digital Medical services Formal field of battle.
Although HealthVault is currently only for English users, but Microsoft has tested the water in the medical field in this action, so concentrate on the development of health care information systems companies jittery. In MSN's medical health channel, Microsoft has shown interest in the medical . In fact, the huge market potential is not the only motivating factor. Microsoft judge has great potential for the two areas, one is to change the life of education, the other is the life-saving medical treatment. in the cause of charity as do the Bill? Gates It appears that the potential of these things play out with the technology, has special significance.
"We do everything in time, have a vision." Microsoft Asia Academy of Engineering Director of Engineering Guo Beijing said, "is to make people more healthy world." To a glass of milk, have healthy strong Microsoft hesitate to raise a cow Perhaps Microsoft is aware of their own, markets will surprise a lot of beef.
Pioneering information islands And consumer markets, "away with shine," Microsoft to open up a medical prescription of IT for enterprise users Amalga system. The Amalga is integrated in a database based on the full range of hospital health intelligence system, including the UIS (UnifiedIntelligenceSystem) and HIS (HospitalInformationSystem) the two systems. UIS is the unified intelligence system, including electronic patient record, electronic prescribing, image data and other information, different departments or even different hospitals, doctors can call the patient data through the system at any time.
Microsoft made the two-level forces have a different understanding: "We enter the medical profession, not just look at medical institutions, we are very concerned about the consumer, because our philosophy is that we do not have the patients and the general consumer divided. "
In a unit in all departments due to various reasons complete isolation between different departments, all kinds of information (such as financial information, information on various programs, etc.) can not smoothly flow between the departments will the formation of islands of information.
Business Director, Microsoft Asia Academy of Engineering, the British health, said the party: "Amalga with a customized approach to re-integrate the information out, but it also very suitable for the exchange of information between several hospitals." Income can be in different departments on a quarterly basis to analysis, show up in the chart. in terms of users, only need to set the chart on the retrieval methods to do simple customization can be customized analysis. will Amalga Microsoft's mapping software with the combination of detection of regional pop the occurrence of disease and to identify the situation out of the map to facilitate the medical sector to take appropriate disease prevention measures.
