Microsoft is continuing to make headway in healthcare, an industry it has been targeting for years.
During the last few months, the Redmond, Wash.-based technology company has partnered with healthcare players for new initiatives that seek to improve various aspects of care delivery.
Microsoft's three most recent partnerships in healthcare, listed in alphabetical order:
- Allscripts. Allscripts and Microsoft joined forces to design a new clinical research model that leverages the EHR and other technologies clinicians use when providing treatment.
- Hill-Rom. Microsoft entered into a collaboration with Hill-Rom, a global medical technology company, to integrate real-time sensing data from medical devices into the EHR.
- Walgreens. Walgreens Boots Alliance and Microsoft signed a seven-year deal to create new "healthcare delivery models, technology and retail innovations to advance and improve the future of healthcare."