MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'amalga'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:52:34 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3729960&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=36670&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fmsdn%2Fhealthblog%2F%7E3%2F3pA3jRe95KE%2Fmake-sure-your-health-organization-has-enough-power-when-you-flip-the-switch.aspx My favorite health futurist and commentator, Ian Morrison, offers another provocative essay in this week’s online edition of Hospitals and Health Networks .  In “ Flip the Switch ” he explores two prominent themes in the healthcare industry, both...(read more) (Source: HealthBlog) HealthBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3729960 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:28:12 +0100 3729960 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599519&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=34633&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FGeHfpP9IAsE%2Fjoin-us-for-the-connected-health-conference.aspx The HealthVault Solution Conference that we did last year has evolved into a broader event that includes more of the solutions that Microsoft has to offer in Health. The Connected Health Conference will be held on June 10-12 in Bellevue, WA and we’re going to feature a lot of content both around Amalga UIS and HealthVault and an exceptional lineup of speakers including David Kibbe, Governor Michael Leavitt, Uwe Reinhardt, Mark Smith and Peter Neupert. Lastly we’re going to have a few surprises in store both for HealthVault and Amalga UIS, so make sure you rush and register, we have limited space available and we expect a lot of people! (Source: The Healthcare IT Blog) The Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599519 Fri, 01 May 2009 06:04:15 +0100 3599519 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599520&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=34633&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FSsNc6IQycU0%2Fgartner-group-s-take-on-health-intelligence-and-amalga-uis.aspx Recently we worked with Gartner Group on a webcast outlining the issues that healthcare provider organizations face when it comes to data integration and how solutions such as Amalga UIS 2009 can help address these issues and provide organizations with more tools and better ability to view, analyze and act upon information that they already own, but rendered inaccessible by the silos in which it’s locked. The twenty minute long webcast features: GG’s Dr. Tom Handler and Vi Shaffer, two of our customers Brad Kappalman and Dr. Mark Smith (Medstar WHC) and Kim Pemble (WHIE), Jon Handler and Peter Neupert. The webcast is available at this address. Enjoy! (Source: The Healthcare IT Blog) The Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599520 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:46:38 +0100 3599520 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599521&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=34633&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FRDhTamFAcCs%2Fhimss-2009-wow.aspx Ok, I have been to a few HIMSS with Microsoft now, but I must say that this one, by all means exceeded my expectations. We had two days of in-depth training with our field before the show and that was great. All the content was spot on (at least from my perspective :-), we had a great representation from across the company and an awesome session with two of our current customers. The show was the busiest for Microsoft in all the 8 years I have been at HIMSS. I was there most of the time and I literally did not have the time to shut up for more than 2 minutes. I talked to our current customers about the new release for the product, prospect customer about the value of Amalga UIS and how that can be used to help address their problems and potential partners about what opportunities exist fo... The Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599521 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:00:10 +0100 3599521 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2314636&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=35744&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fe-CareManagement%2F%7E3%2FtjL9XrI90NE%2F This report…(is)  also an attempt to inject a dose of reality into the discussion of interoperability – from practical expectations for the near term and future years to the challenges of developing software architecture and implementation guides that can execute new interoperability criteria uniformly and successfully. 2) New York Presbyterian/Microsoft: We’re Creating Patient Data Liquidity Today! New York-Presbyterian Hospital Pioneers New Personal Health Record, Press Release; April 6, 2009 Patients can reference their actual, up-to-date health records, which are organized and stored through Microsoft’s Amalga and HealthVault technologies and stored by the patient in a personal account following visits to their hospital, doctors and health care providers. Here are more de... e-CareManagement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2314636 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:41:01 +0100 2314636 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599522&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=34633&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FemLj5IfLr7E%2Fmicrosoft-at-himss-2009-it-starts.aspx We just issued a press release outlining some of the cool things that you’ll see at HIMSS 2009 from Microsoft. At HiMSS09, the annual conference and exhibition for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Microsoft Corp. will showcase in its booth (No. 1232) new solutions designed specifically for healthcare providers, caregivers and patients, as well as partner and customer success stories Specifically: Microsoft Amalga, the Unified Intelligence System Microsoft HealthVault Microsoft Surface The Microsoft Connected Health Platform including Solution Accelerators such as the IHE XDS.b Reference Implementation which now also support the Async Option Several partner solutions showcasing cool use of Microsoft technologies Microsoft will also be present at... The Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599522 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:59:01 +0100 3599522 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599523&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=34633&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2F4AxXQhCAgBc%2Fheaded-for-himss-2009.aspx Like the past 8, this year I will be at 2009 HIMSS Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition. I will be there starting tomorrow (Friday 4/3) for internal Microsoft training. As you can imagine this is a good opportunity to get all the Microsoft people in healthcare together. MS-HUG is on Saturday with a lot of great content. In particular if you are interested in learning more about how our customers are using Amalga UIS, make sure not to miss the session “Dealing with Tough Knowledge Management Issues with Amalga” by Ted Corbett, Seattle Children’s Hospital at 9:15am. The show floor opens on Sunday at 2pm and I will be hanging around the Microsoft pavilion most of the time. You can find us at booth 1232 (easy to remember :-) I will be for sure in the booth on Sunday afternoon, Monday ... The Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599523 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:41:59 +0100 3599523 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599524&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=34633&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FHczNAE0SPhM%2Fvirtua-health-joins-the-growing-amalga-family.aspx Today we announced Virtua Health as our 12th Amalga, the Unified Intelligence System (UIS) customer. Virtua Health is a pioneer in healthcare quality and many other areas. We are jazzed to have them part of our client base and look forward a number of ways in which we can together “Improve Health Around the World”. Implementation at Virtua is underway and soon we should be able to start talking about some of the benefits and accomplishments. We see Amalga UIS playing a key role in Lean and Systems Engineering initiatives at all of the hospitals and organizations where we’re running. The fundamental principle here is that by providing the appropriate tools to the frontline users, organization will be able to reduce the feedback loop cycles helping them understand where process can be ... The Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599524 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:43:04 +0100 3599524 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599527&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=34633&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2Fk32xrtMiJI0%2Fallscripts-to-roll-out-ehr-pm-solutions-for-affiliated-st-joseph-physicians.aspx This is an example of how we’re using Amalga at SJHS to bridge outpatient and inpatient. In this particular case the integration is done via ASTM CCR documents sent by Allscripts to Amalga. SJHS will use the Microsoft Amalga platform to integrate Allscripts solutions with each hospital's information systems. The implementation will allow affiliated physicians to access charts, schedules, lab results and radiology results of their patients at the hospital, while hospital physicians will have access to those patients' ambulatory medical records. Allscripts to roll out EHR, PM solutions for affiliated St. Joseph physicians (Source: The Healthcare IT Blog) The Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599527 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:36:55 +0100 3599527 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599528&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=34633&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2F8rZ_OCXSx_E%2Ftwo-new-customers-announced-for-amalga.aspx Today we are announcing two new great additions to the growing Amalga customer base: University of Washington and Seattle’s Children Hospital! University of Washington will focus on clinical and translational research by basically providing researches with better access to data that was previously scattered across multiple systems and the tools to investigate and Seattle’s Children Hospital while keeping a more clinical focus, will also address clinical research and hospital operations Read the full press releases to get the entire story. This brings the number of announced Amalga customers to eleven: Medstar (July 2006) New York Presbyterian Hospital (March 2007) Johns Hopkins (April 2007) Wisconsin Health Information Exchange (August 2007) Novant (August 2007) Moffitt (Sept... The Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599528 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:44:12 +0100 3599528 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599530&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=34633&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FE9XNutLh8Z0%2Fel-camino-hospital-announced-as-a-new-amalga-customer.aspx Today we announced a new customer added to the growing list of organization that are adopting Amalga to gather better insight on their care delivery, operations and performance. El Camino Hospital today announced that it has selected Microsoft Amalga, the unified intelligence system, as its data platform to aggregate all of its information, which currently resides in disparate, transaction-based systems, and integrate it into a single system that will allow the hospital to better evaluate and improve quality of care. The investment is part of an aggressive three-year initiative aimed at helping El Camino Hospital achieve a top 5 percent ranking among U.S. hospitals across all of its service lines. We are very proud of the customers that have adopted Amalga so far and El Camino adds another... The Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599530 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:10:36 +0100 3599530 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1739636&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=36670&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmsdn%2Fhealthblog%2F%7E5%2F332117283%2FTransforming%2520Medical%2520Data%2520Into%2520Knowledge%2520for%2520Better%2520Health.wma If you want to go straight to the really sexy stuff, scroll toward the bottom of this entry and see the photos and video of Microsoft Surface in Health.  If you want a more complete view of the day's proceedings, read on. Yesterday ended with a very nice cocktail reception held at the Microsoft Conference Center; the site for our annual Microsoft Healthcare Users Group meeting in Redmond.  I always look forward to the social events around our conference as an opportunity to catch up with good friends and business associates from around the country and the world. Turning Health Data into Knowledge Today kicked off with an opening keynote by Steve Shihadeh (left in the photo) VP of Sales and Marketing for our Health Solutions Group.  Steve spoke on "The Transformative Power of... HealthBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1739636 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:49:00 +0100 1739636 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1668856&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=36670&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmsdn%2Fhealthblog%2F%7E5%2F350992790%2FTechForum2008RedmondBrochure.pdf Would you like to get the latest scoop on HealthVault and Microsoft Amalga?  How about a sneak peek at future health solutions using Microsoft Surface?  Would you like to see how some of the world's leading healthcare organizations are improving workflow collaboration and delighting patients with Microsoft Unified Communications?  Or how about an opportunity to see a clinical user interface built with Microsoft Silverlight?  Would you like to see how Microsoft Dynamics CRM can improve patient loyalty and satisfaction?   Would you like to visit the Microsoft campus in Redmond and meet the executives who are leading our health initiatives around the world?  Would you like to tour the Microsoft Home of the future?  If so, this is your golden ticket.   ... HealthBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1668856 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:45:50 +0100 1668856 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3710639&cid=t_169608_113_f&fid=34633&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FeY93A0d4W-A%2Fmicrosoft-amalga-family-announced-today.aspx 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 ... The Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3710639 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:52:59 +0100 3710639