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Informatics: EHRtv: Interview With Steve Aylward - General Manager for Health & Life Sciences, Microsoft®

2010-06-05T16:40:54.648Z

Steve Aylward, General Manager for Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft® discusses with EHRtv™ the future of Microsoft. Microsoft understands that the healthcare industry needs to make drastic improvements in sharing electronic medical records (EMR) across environments. Therefore, Microsoft believes that they are able to contribute. Allscripts™ has worked with Microsoft since its inception and has developed the majority of its solutions using Microsoft products. Allscripts has also endorsed Windows Mobile® and hopes to provide Allscripts Remote™ for Windows Mobile in the near future. Microsoft has also produced its personal health record (PHR) solution, HealthVault™, which was showcased at the Allscripts Client Experience (ACE) 09. HealthVault is free to everyone in the U.S. and hopes to succeed by making the personal health record (PHR) system worldwide. Current Microsoft initiatives include healthcare centric search or Bing.com, cloud computing, and healthcare.

Innovation: The Innovation Economy: R&D and a Crisis

2009-09-02T07:12:16.905Z

Speakers:
Josephine M. Cheng, IBM Fellow & Vice President, IBM Almaden Research Center
Judy Estrin, CEO, JLABS
Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President, Research, Microsoft
Sue Siegel, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Moderator:
Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, BusinessWeek

A healthy economy is always driven by innovation—by big, new ideas. In todays economic crisis, a game-changing breakthrough couldnt come at a better time.

The big new ideas since the 1970s—such as the personal computer, networking, the Internet, and the Web—came from projects supported by government, corporate research and development funding, and venture capitalists. But over the past few years, hundreds of billions have been poured into biotech and IT, with no clear payoff as of yet. Now corporations are cutting back on R&D budgets, venture capitalists are turning cautious, and its not yet clear the role that government is prepared to play.

Has there been an innovation drought, or are the breakthroughs still to come? Will corporate support for R&D dwindle, and how will it affect our ability to innovate in Silicon Valley and in the US? Is the trend to conduct R&D outside the U.S., where it is less expensive, inevitable and the right thing to do? What is the role of government in stimulating R&D? And what will be the new technology that drives the next boom?

Come and hear some of the most distinguished industry insiders examine innovation and R&D today and tomorrow in Silicon Valley, the nation, and the world.

Mobile Telemedicine:Ford Sync...Can the Car be the New Telemedicine Platform?

2009-02-16T22:56:26.587Z

Developed with Microsoft, Ford Sync offers a new level of communications and entertainment convenience. Sync lets users control and personalize their electronic devices in their vehicle. This technology will be available in twelve 2008 model year Ford, Lincoln and Mercury beginning Fall 2007, including Focus, Fusion, Edge, and Explorer. Check out www.syncmyride.com. Incorporating Bluetooth wireless connection technology as its foundation, Sync can connect cellular phones to the vehicle. The user's personal features (such as phone book and ring tones) are automatically downloaded. Sync offers a unique industry-leading text-to-speech function that will translate incoming text messages to speech and read them over the vehicle's audio system. Sync will translate abbreviation like "LOL" into "Laughing Out Loud," and it offers 20 pre-determined responses that can be customized via web downloads. Sync is also the only automotive application that offers full hands-free, voice-activated command and control over portable music players and storage devices, including Zune and iPod.