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At HIMSS, see how the industry is coming together to transform health

As Michael Robinson recently wrote, it’s an exciting time in the health industry, and Microsoft is honored and excited to be back at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS15) in Chicago, Illinois, April 12-16. HIMSS is a powerful opportunity for our industry to come together and share real-world examples of how technology is helping health organizations tackle their toughest challenges.

Transforming healthcare is not something any one company can do alone. Our industry will never create the level of innovation and customer centricity that’s needed if we get hung up on one company versus another, one system versus another, one device versus another. So a big focus at HIMSS is making interoperability a reality, particularly in the US healthcare market.

With that in mind, it’s always a privilege for Microsoft to showcase the incredible work of our community of partners. The ecosystem of health technology leaders that will be demonstrating their innovative solutions are leading the way in four crucial areas:

  • Clinician mobility and productivity
  • Consumer and home health
  • Health analytics
  • Trusted cloud

To name just a few of the partners that are more than worth checking out in our booth while you’re at HIMSS15:

In the clinician and mobility space, Sláinte Healthcare is rethinking the clinical record in an agile and user-friendly way with Vitro. Its clinician-centric EMR enables healthcare providers to benefit from rapid implementation, immediate user adoption, and instant clinical impact.

In the consumer and home health arena, Allscripts FollowMyHealth platform based on Microsoft Azure is connecting the two worlds of enterprise and consumer health. FollowMyHealth is EHR-agnostic, integrates with all systems across the enterprise, and simplifies patient access regardless of the provider’s software.

When it comes to health analytics, solutions from Health Catalyst are great examples of what’s possible with cutting-edge analytics and machine learning technologies. The partner’s solutions can help health organizations be responsive as well as opportunistic amid all the incredible change that is coming down the line in healthcare.

Speaking of agility, there will be a whole gaggle of cloud vendor offerings on display in our booth that can provide the much-needed elasticity, on-demand scale, and cost-effectiveness that health organizations need today.

Although, individually, each of the partner solutions that we’ll be showcasing at HIMSS offer great value to health organizations, for me the even bigger story is how all of us in the industry are working together to offer open and interoperable solutions. Solutions that help health organizations connect information, people, and processes in new and efficient ways.

For example, in the past 12 months, Microsoft has demonstrated its commitment to openness and collaboration by bringing Microsoft Office to ever more operating systems outside of Windows. We’ve also enabled solutions from companies like salesforce.com and SAP to easily work on our current platform.

In other words, it’s a new world out there-a world where exclusivity is a thing of the past, and inclusivity is the rule of the day.

Please come by our HIMSS booth #1202 to see for yourself what I’m talking about. In the meantime, feel free to reach out via email, Facebook, or Twitter