Microsoft’s movement into healthcare has been slow, deliberate and fascinating. With products that now range from a PHR platform (HealthVault) to single-sign-functionality (Sentillion) to an information aggregation and analysis system (Amalga), the company is strategically picking up pieces of the healthcare continuum. But while Microsoft offers an HIS outside the United States, it says there […]
One-on-One w/MedStar Health’s Gerry Higgins – Part 2
Gerald Higgins, PhD., MBA, MS, is not your typical CIO — that’s because Higgins is a chief innovation officer. Getting paid not to carry out EMR implementations or persuade physicians to embrace CPOE, Higgins is remunerated to “see what’s happening one or two hills over the horizon.” With a dizzying array of jobs and accomplishments […]