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Cloud computing in healthcare – turn here for answers by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Businesses large and small are hurdling faster and faster to cloud computing. The reasons are clear. Cloud computing offers the scalability, flexibility and cost advantag ... Read on »

Cost versus worth of technology in healthcare by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Two articles caught my attention this week amid of the flurry of news about jobs, the market and the economy. The first, Not retiring at 65: Physician goes from anti-EHR to ... Read on »

A Whirlwind of Activity at WoHIT eHealth Week in Copenhagen, Denmark by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The view from my room high atop the Bella Sky Comwell Hotel pretty much symbolizes what my past two days have been like at the World of Health IT Conference in Copenhagen – ... Read on »

Creative Destruction – What it means for healthcare, clinical practice and consumers by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of providing a keynote address at the Group Practice Improvement Network (GPIN) conference that was held in Seattle. I say “pleasure” for ... Read on »

Research4Life “Library in a Box” to be honored at GBCHealth Awards in NYC by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A public-private partnership known as Research4Life that is sponsored in part by Microsoft, has been commended by the Global Business Coalition on Health and will be honored ... Read on »

Health Tech Spending and Profitability - Chicken, Egg or Omelet? by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As someone whose entire career has been steeped in clinical medicine and technology, I’m a big fan of the American publication, Hospitals and Health Networks . I especially ... Read on »

Is your IT strategy putting your health organization at risk of becoming extinct? by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This week I’m writing from Gothenburg, Sweden, where I am holding meetings with Microsoft customers and partners. I am also doing a keynote address at Vitalis , a conferenc ... Read on »

Microsoft HealthVault opens to the world……. or at least a lot more of it by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Whenever I travel outside the US, and even inside the US, I tend to get lots of questions about Microsoft’s platform for personal health records, HealthVault . I say “platf ... Read on »

Health ICT 2012 – Pain, Progress and Promise by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy After two weeks back in my Redmond office it is time again to hit the road. I swear I hardly remember last week due to the mental fog of jetlag after a two and a half week ... Read on »

Senior citizens improve health, sense of well being with Kinect, XBOX 360 & Microsoft HealthVault by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy If you think video games are just for kids, tweens and teens you’d be terribly wrong. People of all ages are buying and playing video games these days. In fact, a pilot pr ... Read on »

Health ICT moves forward in Australia with some great people and best practices by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This weekend I’ve settled in Brisbane at one of my favorite hotels, the Stamford Plaza . It has an ideal location with easy access to the riverfront, City Cat water taxi se ... Read on »

New Zealand sets an example on the race for better healthcare by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Over the weekend I arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, my first stop before I continue on to Australia for a multi-city tour of meetings with customers, partners and governmen ... Read on »

Making health services more accessible and affordable to more people by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act is slated to bring health insurance coverage to an additional 30 million Americans who are currently uninsured. With many pri ... Read on »

Don’t blame technology for driving up the cost of healthcare. Blame all of us who use it... by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy If you are a regular reader of HealthBlog, I suspect you may already subscribe to THCB , The Health Care Blog. Like most folks in the health industry, I’m a big fan of THCB ... Read on »

Your turn! Health information and medical services that scale and change the world. by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Those who know about my background understand why and how my medical career gravitated toward all things digital. Frankly, it wasn’t by design. Life just kind of happened ... Read on »

Innovations for health and healthcare through the looking glass of Microsoft Research by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy One of the coolest aspects of my job at Microsoft is getting early previews of work going on at Microsoft Research . Did you know that Microsoft invests more than $9 Billio ... Read on »

Medical Dictation, Speech Recognition Moves to the Cloud by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Healthcare is a data intensive business. One of the barriers to adoption of electronic medical records is data entry. Using a keyboard to write long medical reports or ente ... Read on »

HIMSS 2012 – Software, Solutions and Robots…… Oh My! by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In my last post I mentioned that this year at HIMSS I’d be looking for IT solutions that help bring us closer to the “triple-aim” of better (higher quality), faster (improve ... Read on »

Lessons from Las Vegas - HIMSS 12 and Healthcare by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As almost anyone even remotely connected to the world of health ICT knows, this week is the HIMSS Conference in Las Vegas. I arrived early to provide a keynote Sunday morni ... Read on »

Software solution keeps doctors on time, patients more satisfied by Dr. Bill Crounse Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Have you ever been a patient in a hospital? If not, perhaps you have had the experience of having a family member or other loved one spend time in a hospital. In either ca ... Read on »

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