Microsoft is readying yet another piece of its healthcare software program and services platform.The latest component is actually a SharePoint-based offering known as HealthVault Local community Connect, which Microsoft is introducing on March 1 at the Healthcare Facts and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference . Due out in the third calendar quarter of this year, Local community Connect will manage medical-records-processing workflows, offering automation on the patient entry and discharge fronts.The “Community” within the name of the new product isn;t a reference to social networking. Instead, it refers to the “community” of the individual,
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Windows 7 Home Premium, according to Microsoft. Neighborhood Connect is being designed to better automate the interactions among these groups, by allowing hospitals to provide patients and their doctors with access to electronic copies of patients; health data generated by the hospitals. It also will allow patients to preregister for hospital appointments and use their electronic health information to fill out hospital forms in advance.Microsoft and select partners will be selling licenses for the Local community Connect application to hospitals.“Anyone today can use the (existing) HealthVault SDK (software development kit) to access the data. And the (consumer-facing) HealthVault support may be accessed for free,
Microsoft Office 2010 Key,” explained David Cerino, General Manager of Microsoft;s Consumer Health Solutions Group. “We wrote this application to make the processing easier and quicker.”In addition to plugging into the HealthVault support, the Community Connect application also will include integration links to Amalga, Microsoft;s patient-information software,
Office 2007 Product Key, which the company acquired in 2006. HealthVault, a personal health application platform,
Windows 7 Home Premium, is the centerpiece of Microsoft;s healthcare product family, is both a client application and an Azure-based cloud service.Local community Connect (which was codenamed “Miami,” for you fellow/sister codename buffs) is the second healthcare application that Microsoft has developed. Last year, the company launched the Mayo Clinic Health Manager application, which Microsoft co-developed with the Mayo Clinic. More than 150 third-party developers also have developed applications that plug into the HealthVault platform, Cerino said.HealthVault Neighborhood Connect requires Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites. The product will be available to Software program Assurance customers only.
