Microsoft and athenahealth Unveil Electronic Health Solution
February 24, 2011
By Raju Shanbhag
TMCnet Contributor
Microsoft has joined with athenahealth to introduce an electronic health solution for healthcare service providers. According to Microsoft (News - Alert), this new system will improve the connectivity and communication between hospitals, physicians and patients.
To deliver services in the cloud and with Microsoft Amalga’s powerful capabilities for collecting data from disparate IT systems and making it accessible and actionable, the alliance will leverage the companies’ respective strengths, specifically athenahealth’s approach. Health systems can now see inpatient and ambulatory information in a single view as the athenaNet-Amalga connector, the technology that expedites and expands information exchange between the two solutions, enables this feature.
Microsoft closely collaborates with a broad ecosystem of partners and delivers its own powerful health solutions, such as Amalga, HealthVault, and a portfolio of identity and access management technologies acquired from Sentillion (News - Alert), Inc., in 2010.
“athenahealth and Microsoft share a common view on the importance of improving information sharing across the health system to address the ‘data gaps’ faced by healthcare organizations striving to deliver optimal care,” said Peter Neupert, corporate vice president, Microsoft Health Solutions Group. “By connecting athenahealth and Microsoft’s complementary health IT assets, we can open new doors for health systems looking to reduce costs and improve care.”
With the partnership between athenahealth and Microsoft, healthcare providers can have a single point of access into inpatient and outpatient records. The companies will jointly market their respective applications to existing and prospective clients. Both the companies are bridging the information gap and providing clinicians the ability to access patient information from anywhere, regardless of its origination.
Recently, the company unveiled its plan to release a new version of its Dynamics AX ERP software in the third quarter of this year. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 is said to be a comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for midsize and larger organizations that can help people to work effectively, manage change, and compete globally. Moreover, it makes it easy to operate across locations and countries by standardizing processes.
Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Raju’s articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by Tammy Wolf
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