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When lawyers are looking at eHealth… Octavian Purcarea, Industry Solutions Manager - 10 August 2010

Recently I was invited to speak about new business models of eHealth at a conference in Denmark. It was...

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HealthVault arrives in Europe… Octavian Purcarea, Industry Solutions Manager - 28 July 2010

HealthVault – the Microsoft Personal Health Record platform – is now in Europe! While, in several posts on...

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Putting citizens in charge of their health John Coulthard, Senior Director Healthcare and Life Sciences - 13 July 2010

Today, we try to control just about every aspect of our lives. Technology, software, mobile devices and a...

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Interview: Microsoft expert view on industry and government collaboration on health Lisa Boch-Andersen, Senior Director for Communications Europe - 29 June 2010 Interview: Microsoft expert view on industry and government collaboration on health

Watch my colleague Niels Soelberg, Vice President Public Sector Sales, Microsoft speak about the need for...

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Health for all, care for you: The promise of personalised healthcare in Europe Richard L. Hudson - 23 June 2010

Personalised healthcare stands at the confluence of the most powerful technologies in the history of the life...

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Video highlights from a live US-Europe debate on ICT and our future eHealth system John Vassallo, Vice President - EU Affairs - 26 May 2010 Video highlights from a live US-Europe debate on ICT and our future eHealth system

Thanks to technology and a robust broadband network in Belgium, we recently hosted our second ‘Transatlantic...

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Enabling technologies in eHealth Futures - 26 May 2010 Enabling technologies in eHealth

Europe and the US may have very different ways of funding health, but they have much in common, too. A new...

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Personalised healthcare: the information challenge Futures - 18 May 2010 Personalised healthcare: the information challenge

There is one game-changer that can turn the promise of personalised healthcare into a reality. It is...

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Cloud computing in action: Dutch orthopedic center expands patient capacity by 30 percent without need to increase staff Lisa Boch-Andersen, Senior Director for Communications Europe - 17 May 2010 Cloud computing in action: Dutch orthopedic center expands patient capacity by 30 percent without need to increase staff

Annatommie is an orthopedic diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation center in the Netherlands. With ambitious...

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Mobile phones, XBOX consoles and health? Yes, there is a link! Elena Bonfiglioli, Director of Citizenship - 30 April 2010

Patient empowerment is key to healthcare in the future. Patients themselves are demanding it, as they want...

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An interview with Bruce Greenstein, Worldwide Managing Director of Health at Microsoft Elena Bonfiglioli, Director of Citizenship - 26 April 2010

Here is our short interview of Bruce Greenstein, World Wide Managing Director for Health at Microsoft– when he...

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Dutch hospital finds email compliance solution at 70% cost reduction through cloud computing Lisa Boch-Andersen, Senior Director for Communications Europe - 23 March 2010 Dutch hospital finds email compliance solution at 70% cost reduction through cloud computing

Ziekenhuis Amstelland (ZHA) is aa hospital in Amstelveen with 1,200 employees. Due to changes in Dutch...

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Webinar: Introducing an eHealth study on enabling technology for a healthier Europe Wendy Currie - 03 March 2010

The eHealth landscape offers both opportunities and barriers to policy makers in the EU 27 member states which...

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Craig Mundie talks e-health and technology policy in the cloud area Lisa Boch-Andersen, Senior Director for Communications Europe - 26 February 2010 Craig Mundie talks e-health and technology policy in the cloud area

Last week I published a video interview I conducted with Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy...

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High level Transatlantic debate: How technology enables innovation, growth and the transformation of healthcare Events - 29 January 2010 High level Transatlantic debate: How technology enables innovation, growth and the transformation of healthcare

Microsoft, in partnership with European Voice and its sister publications in Washington DC, Roll Call and...

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Planning Europe’s healthcare revolution: The role of eHealth 06 January 2010 | 1 comment Planning Europe’s healthcare revolution: The role of eHealth

Views and commentaries from Europe’s ICT & eHealth thought leaders. Filmed during the Friends of Europe...

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Microsoft join COCIR Elena Bonfiglioli, Director of Citizenship - 17 December 2009

I wanted to share with you the fact that we joined the COCIR.  We are delighted to be joining such a...

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eHealth systems putting the patient at the centre Futures - 01 December 2009 eHealth systems putting the patient at the centre

Interoperability and building trust in the privacy and security of eHealth systems is the route to...

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Free multimedia for the developing world Futures - 01 December 2009 Free multimedia for the developing world

What developing countries need is a stable, sustainable, robust and low-cost means of delivering services and...

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The Trento algorithm: A research recipe from Italy Futures - 01 December 2009 The Trento algorithm: A research recipe from Italy

Take an ancient town, a new university, Microsoft Research and a fresh approach to computational systems...

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The swarm is coming… Making molecular computing a reality Futures - 01 December 2009 The swarm is coming… Making molecular computing a reality

Inspired by biology, Klaus-Peter Zauner is working on a radically new kind of computer.

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Understanding eHealth and its implications: start with Euractiv Elena Bonfiglioli, Director of Citizenship - 12 November 2009 | 2 comments

  Although most people will agree that eHealth is important, it remains a complex landscape which few...

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Microsoft on eHealth at Global Forum '09 on Innovation Elena Bonfiglioli, Director of Citizenship - 12 November 2009

Dr Octavian Purcarea’s recent presentation on Innovation and Sustainable eHealth - at the Global Forum on...

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Future vision of healthcare Octavian Purcarea, Industry Solutions Manager - 09 November 2009

What will be the future of healthcare? 

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Latest from the Worldwide Health Team Elena Bonfiglioli, Director of Citizenship - 30 October 2009

Microsoft Europe’s eHealth expert per excellence, Dr Octavian Purcarea (his real job title is Global Solution...

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eHealth: why does it matter and what do we do now? 27 November 2009 eHealth: why does it matter and what do we do now?

eHealth is key to better patient care. Here are the basics, as described by a series of experts. Filmed at an...

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Defining eHealth Elena Bonfiglioli, Director of Citizenship - 19 October 2009 | 1 comment

In a recent Microsoft eHealth and Interoperability event, we asked various experts and thought leaders on the...

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Global Forum 2009 in Bucharest Octavian Purcarea, Industry Solutions Manager - 19 October 2009

Global Forum 2009 is now happening in Romania and Microsoft is glad to be part of the program. Four...

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Asklepios - Future Hospital 02 February 2010 Asklepios - Future Hospital

Asklepios Hospital: Using Microsoft and Intel technology in modern healthcare

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Wireless information system helps doctors communicate 01 September 2009 | 4 comments Wireless information system helps doctors communicate

The Kosice Children’s teaching hospital started a six-month Mobile Point of Care trial. The result was a...

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Innovations in eHealth can improve medical care & increase efficiency: Foundation Trust set to boost patient care with content management system. 01 September 2009 Innovations in eHealth can improve medical care & increase efficiency:     Foundation Trust set to boost patient care with content management system.

Healthcare is one of the biggest challenges facing our societies, economies and governments over the coming...

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Hospital district connects systems and improves communications 01 September 2009 Hospital district connects systems and improves communications

Developed economies are already finding it hard to maintain standards of healthcare within existing budgets....

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The virtual physiological human: The search for computing’s supermodel 01 June 2009 | 2 comments The virtual physiological human: The search for computing’s supermodel

Is this the ultimate challenge: to use computational techniques to construct a model of how the human body...

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Modelling in four dimensions Nuala Moran - 01 June 2009 Modelling in four dimensions

From conception to birth, death and beyond, the human body is all about change. Thus, a key issue in modelling...

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Your tissue samples are in the email 01 June 2009 Your tissue samples are in the email

It's a simple idea – digitise the results of microscopy and accelerate the healthcare process. One university...

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The wearable camera that brings back the memories 01 June 2009 The wearable camera that brings back the memories

Microsoft’s SenseCam helps advance the study of neuroscience by enabling memory recall and opening the pathway...

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Microsoft sponsors prestigious award for European research Nuala Moran - 01 December 2008 Microsoft sponsors prestigious award for European research

One of Europe's leading pioneers in the field of medical image analysis has been awarded the €250,000 Royal...

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Next generation devices: pocket supercomputers for doctors 01 December 2008 Next generation devices: pocket supercomputers for doctors

Are we prepared for the next generation of embedded and mobile computing devices?

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A lifeline for systems biology 01 June 2008 | 1 comment A lifeline for systems biology

It is a fact universally acknowledged: the pharmaceutical industry needs a new drug development paradigm....

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Genomics and proteomics: the emerging role of machine learning 01 June 2008 Genomics and proteomics: the emerging role of machine learning

Computing and communication technologies have already had a massive impact on today's healthcare system. Even...

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Systems biology under the microscope Nuala Moran - 01 December 2007 | 3 comments Systems biology under the microscope

You can't capture the thrill and excitement of a football match by describing the individual players....

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